EIF has joined the coalition against the draft of the GPAI Code of Practice
The EIF (European Illustrators Forum) has joined a coalition of authors, performers, and other rightsholders from the EU’s cultural and creative sectors to express concerns about the third draft of the European Union’s General-Purpose AI Code of Practice.
The EIF, a network of 17 national illustrators’ associations representing over 12,000 illustrators across Europe, has signed a statement against the third draft of the GPAI Code of Practice. In addition, 37 associations across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors have signed the statement, which they submitted to the European Union on March 25, 2025.
The coalition highlights that they cannot support the third draft of the GPAI Code of Practice, which undermines the objectives of the AI Act, contravenes EU law and ignores the intention of the EU legislator.
The coalition has published an open letter, explaining how the draft undermines the goals of the AI Act, infringes Union law, and misrepresents the intentions of EU lawmakers.
Read the summary here:
“A key objective of the AI Act is to give authors, performers and other rightsholders tools to exercise and enforce their rights by requiring General-Purpose AI (GPAI) providers to put in place measures to comply with EU copyright law and provide a sufficiently detailed summary of the content ingested and used for training. This was recognised by the EU legislator as a key means to support the development of AI in Europe and protect the EU’s creative sectors that drive its cultural and economic landscape.
However, the third draft of the GPAI Code of Practice represents yet another step away from achieving this objective. It creates legal uncertainty, misinterprets EU copyright law and undercuts the obligations set out in the AI Act itself. Rather than providing a robust framework for compliance, it sets the bar so low as to provide no meaningful assistance for authors, performers and other rightsholders to exercise or enforce their rights. Even more fundamentally, it would also not ensure that GPAI providers comply with either EU copyright law or the AI Act.
We have participated constructively in the drafting process and provided substantive comments to the previous drafts of the Code of Practice, underlining severe deficiencies affecting all creative sectors. However, the drafters of the Code have largely ignored or dismissed those comments. Regrettably, the third draft does not meet the adequacy requirement provided by the EU AI Act, and, therefore, should not be approved without substantial improvements. No Code would be better than the fundamentally flawed third draft.“
The statement has been signed by the following associations:
