Representing a broad coalition of European and global authors, performers, publishers, producers and other rightsholder organisations, we wish to formally express our dissatisfaction with the published GPAI Code of Practice, the GPAI Guidelines, and the Template for disclosure of a sufficiently detailed summary of training data under Article 53 of the EU AI Act.

The SAA is one of the more than 70 associations that have signed a joint letter from the cultural and creative sectors calling for an increased Creative Europe budget. This comes ahead of the EU Commission’s unveiling of its proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034) and amid rumours of a potential cut to the Creative Europe budget.

The EU Commission is developing a Culture Compass to serve as a strategic framework for EU cultural policy. It aims to improve the consistency of EU policies and strengthen coordination between funding and policy. The SAA has submitted its response to the EU Commission's consultation.

The SAA have joined a broad coalition of organisations in Europe’s creative and cultural sector that are calling for transparency, consent, and remuneration to be at the heart of AI implementation. The coalition emphasised that AI and creativity can thrive together – if the rules respect the people whose work powers these technologies.

Representatives from the film and audiovisual sectors across the world have released a statement and launched a global petition. In it, they urge all governments to stand firm and safeguard the systems that support independent film and audiovisual creation so that culture, creativity, and democratic access to diverse stories for the screen can continue to flourish.

Organisations from across the Europe's film and audiovisual sector send a joint statement to EU Culture Ministers ahead of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council on 12-13 May, calling for sector-specific effective EU funding programmes, to safeguard the long-term resilience, competitiveness and the vitality of Europe’s cultural and creative ecosystem.

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.