Together with 23 other creators and rightsholder organisations, on October 29, 2024, GESAC, the European Grouping of Societies of Authors and Composers, sent a letter to European policy makers urging them to ensure the AI Act is effectively implemented, protecting and promoting European Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs).

The letter restates rightsholders’ support for the aims laid out in the AI Act, adopted during the last EU term, but calls for a swift and faithful implementation measures to ensure the legislation is effect.

“We are contending with the seriously detrimental situation of generative AI companies taking our content without authorisation on an industrial scale in order to develop their AI models. Their actions result in illegal commercial gains and unfair competitive advantages for their AI models, services, and products, in violation of European copyright laws.”

Read the letter here.