13 international authors’, performers’ and other creative workers’ organisations are addressing this letter to MEPS in the European Parliament’s JURI Committee ahead of the publication of their report “Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges”.
With this letter, CEATL and the other signatories urge the JURI Committee to draft “an ambitious report addressing our concerns around the implementation of the AI Act and the questionable applicability of TDM exception. Ultimately, we urge MEPs to place the key principles of authorisation, remuneration and transparency at the heart of this report.”
Our asks to Members of the European Parliament In the context of the forthcoming European Parliament report on copyright and generative AI:
1. Hold a democratic debate on the applicability of the TDM exceptions, clarifying their scope in a way that safeguards the legitimate interests of rightsholders and ensures compliance with the three-step test.
2. Call for an effective and timely implementation of the AI Act and ensure a high level of transparency to protect authors’ and performers’ rights.
3. Ensure authors and performers can effectively authorise the use(s) of their works and performances in the context of generative AI (opt-in) and encourage functional solutions to remunerate them in an appropriate and proportionate manner.
4. Ensure that the moral rights and personal data of authors and performers are protected.