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The European Alliance of News Agencies (EANA) expresses serious concerns about the latest draft of the EU Code of Practice for General Purpose AI. The Alliance is warning that its vague language and reduced obligations weaken protections for rightsholders. For news agencies the proposed technical solutions for rights management are unsuitable.

Not fit for purpose: Writers, translators and journalists of the European text sector express strong opposition to the Third Draft of the EU’s Code of Practice under the AI Act’s implementation.

Meta has pledged to combat misinformation and AI-generated deepfakes ahead of Australia's upcoming national election by enhancing its fact-checking program and implementing stricter content moderation. While this move contrasts with its recent anti-censorship stance in the U.S., it reflects Meta’s compliance with Australian legislative expectations around election integrity and online safety.

Photographers remain essential in the AI era, according to Shutterstock’s Senior Director of AI, Dr. Alessandra Sala, who explains that AI models fundamentally rely on real-world, ethically sourced images to learn and evolve. Without fresh and diverse photography, AI risks becoming stagnant, biased, and disconnected from reality.

CEPIC and EANA are strengthening their partnership in 2025 to promote trust in visual journalism and enhance industry standards for image licensing and copyright protection. This collaboration will be highlighted at CEPIC 2025, featuring a keynote by AFP’s Éric Baradat and a panel on combating war disinformation through image verification.

The Syndicat national de l'édition (SNE), the Société des Gens de Lettres (SGDL) and the Syndicat national des auteurs et des compositeurs (SNAC) have taken legal action against Meta before the 3rd chamber of the Paris Court of Justice for the massive use of copyrighted works to train its generative artificial intelligence model., without authorisation of authors and publishers.

Spain and China have introduced strict new regulations requiring AI-generated content to be clearly labelled to combat misinformation and protect digital integrity. Spain’s proposed law imposes heavy fines for non-compliance, while China mandates both visible and metadata-based labelling to ensure transparency in AI-generated media.