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Brussels, 28 January 2026 — The European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) adopted today its report on Generative AI and Copyright, sending a clear and strong political message on the need to protect European creators in the generative AI market.

GESAC applauds the Committee’s strong commitment to addressing creators’ concerns and welcomes its call for targeted EU legislation to ensure transparency, fairness and respect for authors’ rights. The adopted text notes, in particular, that such legislative intervention should:

• reaffirm the full applicability of EU and national copyright laws to all generative AI services operating in the EU regardless of where they are established or developed,
• provide meaningful transparency obligations for generative AI services,
• introduce a presumption mechanism to achieve a functioning licensing market, and
• consider solutions to address the harmful substitution effects of AI-generated outputs competing unfairly with the original works of creators.

Together with a broad coalition from across Europe’s music sector, GESAC call on the European Commission to commit to a coherent policy strategy and an ambitious budget for music with AgoraEU.

Music employs over 1.3 million Europeans, fosters inclusion and democratic values, encompasses a rich ecosystem and enhances Europe’s global cultural presence. Yet, despite its reach and impact, music remains underrepresented in EU cultural policy.

Brussels, 30 July 2025

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.

Read the full statement here. 

Following the success of the 7th edition of the ALAI European Authors’ Right Award, supported by GESAC, we are pleased to announce that the 8th edition of the Award has been launch!

                            Are you a law student currently studying or researching authors’ right/copyright? If so, we encourage you to apply for the 8th edition of the ALAI European Authors’ Right Award – supported by GESAC!