This week, members of the CEPIC Board gathered in Paris to reflect on the success of CEPIC 2025 and begin planning for CEPIC 2026. With temperatures soaring to 28°C, our board met at the offices of CEPIC member, Sipa Press, who were kind enough to host us in their Paris office. Those unable to attend in person joined the discussion remotely, ensuring a full and productive meeting.
On the agenda? Reviewing your feedback from CEPIC 2025, discussing potential improvements, and of course, conversations around where CEPIC 2026 will take place.
The following day, our Executive Director, Sylvie Fodor, represented CEPIC at the Parlement de la Photographie 2025, where she moderated the session “Photography and the Challenge of AI”.
As co-organiser of this session, CEPIC was proud to be part of such an essential discussion which looks to tackle legal and technological frameworks for copyright and transparency in the age of generative AI. Key contributor to this conversation was Prof. Alexandra Bensamoun, who presented two important reports on AI, copyright, and the need for a fair remuneration model for cultural content used by AI systems.
The following topics were discussed during this round table:
- Transparency obligations which will enable, in particular:
- Controlling the use of creative content used in AI training, in particular the reservation of rights (opt-out) Is this even possible? Philippe Rixhon believes so, and he presented the premises of a system that would make it possible to control this content. This project is funded by the European Union.
- Ensure remuneration for training data Mr Javier Gutierrez, CEO of VEGAP in Spain, presented the draft law on AI remuneration through extended licensing
- Promote the value of AI-generated content Stéphanie de Roquefeuil closed the round table by presenting the photographers' point of view.