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European creators and rightsholders call for improved AI Code of Practice

January 28 2025

On 27 Jan 2025, ICMP along with European creators and rightsholders issued a joint letter to the office of Executive Vice-President Virkkunen calling for the second draft of the AI Code of Practice to be more aligned with the AI Act:

“We represent a diverse yet unified coalition of creators and right holders active across the EU’s cultural and creative industries. We are writing to express our serious concerns about the Second Draft of the General-purpose AI Code of Practice under the EU AI Act. Despite our constructive engagement in the AI Office’s consultation process on the First Draft, the Second Draft fails to fairly reflect the substantive comments by the creative sectors and acknowledged by the Co-Chairs. When it comes to the fundamentally important issues of transparency and respect for copyright, the Second Draft moves further away from meeting the objectives of the Act. The EU proved its global leadership in passing legislation that supports the development of responsible AI, while ensuring that European creative industries can continue to grow. The current direction of travel of the Code of Practice, together with the AI Office’s suggested template for the sufficiently detailed summary of content used in general-purpose AI training, risks undermining this delicate balance and undermines two critical achievements of the AI Act: supporting the development of AI in Europe and the EU’s innovative and dynamic creative sectors.

If the draft is not substantially improved, the Code will fail to meet the objectives of the AI Act and directly conflict with EU law, including copyright law. Such an outcome would be unacceptable, and we cannot support a process that undermines the very principles it was designed to uphold.”

 

Read full letter here