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👏Sonja Prosenc's Family Therapy wins big at the Festival of Slovenian Film cineuropa.org/en/newsdetail/… via Cineuropa

📰 Read Cécile Despringre's October digest, in which she highlights: ✨ Travels to Budapest (@HU24EU) and Warsaw (CISACNews) to discuss generative AI and copyright ✨ Preparation for November’s all-member meeting ✨ Reading tips & more ... bit.ly/3AgC5HX

I am attending the 🇪🇺confirmation hearing of Commissioner-designate Glenn Micallef responsible for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport by European Parliament. A good start for the youngest Commissioner-designate who emphasised his action for young people and artists.

At the 34th Cinéastes de L'ARP Film Meetings, the French National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image Le CNC suggests adjusting platform regulations in France, especially with regard to the quota and the definition of European works cineuropa.org/469853

What lawmakers should ask the EU’s new tech boss. trib.al/bB5Ra4l

One hour into Henna Virkkunen's parliamentary hearing, she has hardly said anything new from her written replies. She consistently mentions slashing red tape, fostering investments, addressing critical dependencies, and some regulatory priorities (i.e. minors & e-commerce). 1/n

Major topics largely missing from Virkkunen's hearing. The #AIAct as AI is merely mentioned with a focus on innovation. The #DMA as the #DSA has stolen the show. Sovereignty requirements in #EUCS, since most discussions on cloud are focused on developing infrastructure. 6/n

After 3h10 of hearing (of 3h30), first question on #AI & #copyright asked by JURI chair to ⁦Henna Virkkunen⁩, Commissioner-designate for Tech Sovereignty over her future plans. Glad to hear she cares about creators and their fair compensation when their works are used.

Vice President designate for Tech, Henna Virkkunen promise the 🇪🇺European Parliament that she will work for creators to be fairly remunerated. 🗣️"We have to take good care of our creators." 🗣️"Nobody should make business of others work without remuneration." #WeLoveAuthors 🎬

2nd interesting question by CULT Committee Press vice-chair Emma Rafowicz : how to improve EU rules to better protect creators facing #AI? Henna Virkkunen emphasised that there should be no use of works without compensation but was not clear on the need for new legislation.

Costa-Gavras • Director of Last Breath cineuropa.org/en/interview/4… via Cineuropa

Paola Cortellesi • Director of There Is Still Tomorrow cineuropa.org/en/interview/4… via Cineuropa

The hard right is mainstream in Brussels now. trib.al/xGhqTVE

Dialogue from more than 139,000 movies and TV shows has been used without permission to train generative-AI tools, including by companies such as Apple and Anthropic, a new investigation from Alex Reisner reveals: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

🗎 Joint Statement to 🇪🇺 Culture Ministers: 🔹 Put artistic freedom & cultural diversity at💛of European audiovisual policy 🔹 Reinforce CreativeEurope MEDIA 🔹 Support Independent Creation & SMEs 🔹 Foster transparent & inclusive dialogue 🔗 bit.ly/4i1FMlH I #WeLoveAuthors

Spain opened a new front for rights holders in #AI model training with a draft royal decree that would introduce an extended collective licensing regime. The regime might set an influential precedent for EU countries interested in building national LLMs. mlex.com/mlex/articles/…

MEPs will provide their input on the #GPAI code of practice on Dec. 11. The chairs spearheading the drafting process will be invited to attend just as they are about to finalize a second draft. A meeting with Henna Virkkunen was postponed until January. mlex.com/mlex/articles/…

"Without the support of the European MEDIA programme we would never have been able to survive and we will never stop thanking them for that." - José Antonio de Luna, COO & co-founder, Filmin 💬 CreativeEurope MEDIA Read the #interview here: cineuropa.org/470979

OpenAI’s Sora, the Text-to-Video Tool That Caught Hollywood Off Guard, Rolls Out to Public hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin… via The Hollywood Reporter

Q&A with Sofia Exarchou, director of Animal, after the screening at ⁦CINEMA GALERIES⁩ of one of the nominees of the ⁦LUX Audience Award⁩. A moving film with a great actress Dimitra Vlagkopoulou.