On 25 February, the SAA submitted its response to the UK’s public consultation on copyright and artificial intelligence. The UK proposes to introduce an exception for AI training with the possibility of rights reservations, similar to the EU. We responded that an exception for AI training is far from helpful in achieving the UK’s (and the EU’s) objective of promoting innovation while protecting the creative sector. Collective licensing is the most acceptable solution.

Joint statement by a coalition of authors, performers and other rightsholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors regarding the third draft of the EU AI Act’s GPAI Code of Practice: It undermines the objectives of the AI Act, contravenes EU law and ignores the intention of the EU legislator – we cannot support it.

Authors' and performers' representative organisations write to EU Vice-President Virkkunen and Commissioner Micallef to address the shortcomings of the AI Code of Practice to ensure that authors' and performers' rights and remuneration are respected.

All the cultural and creative sectors have come together to reaffirm the international copyright framework in a call signed by 38 European and global organisations at the AI Summit.

We are approaching the end of the year, but the beginning of a new mandate for the European Commission. European audiovisual stakeholders therefore jointly call on European Ministers of Culture to reaffirm their commitment to policies that promote Europe’s unique cultural diversity while supporting local audiovisual ecosystems in a rapidly changing world.

We are writing to you as a broad coalition of creators and rightholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative industries to reiterate our support for the aims of the AI Act and to encourage you to promote and oversee its effective and meaningful implementation.

The European and international organisations of authors and performers’ collective management organisations in the audiovisual, music, literary and visual arts – AEPO-ARTIS, BIEM, CISAC, EVA, IFRRO, GESAC and the SAA – have joined forces to call on the Finnish Parliament to reverse the cut in private copying compensation.

The Society of Audiovisual Authors (SAA) congratulates Poland on the implementation of the 2019 Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market and the Directive on Retransmission. After a long uphill battle, a historic milestone has finally been reached.

On the occasion of the announcement of the five films nominated for the LUX Audience Award 2025, the Federation of European Screen Directors (FERA), the Federation of Screenwriters in Europe (FSE) and the SAA call in their joint statement on the Members of the European Parliament to empower European audiovisual creation in all its diversity during their 10th parliamentary term.

European and international associations of authors’ collective management organisations in the audiovisual, music, text and visual art’s sectors express their concern about the recent cut in the private copying compensation in Finland.

Members of the SAA and its Patrons are sending a message to their fellow citizens to stand up for a democratic Europe and its cultural diversity by voting in the European elections on 6-9 June 2024.

The SAA and several of its members hereby send a letter to all parties concerned in the relevant proceedings initiated by the Antimonopoly Office of the Slovak Republic against LITA - the Slovak Society of Authors and member of the SAA.