Copyright, Creativity, and Generative AI: The Research Sector’s Missing Seat at the Policy Table

There is a longstanding tendency in policy debates to narrowly interpret “creative industries” as shorthand for music, film, and the performing arts. This tradition certainly seemed respected in the 4 June workshop and hearing organised in the European Parliament JURI Committee on generative AI and copyright. That shorthand is not just misleading: it’s dangerous. It risks cementing laws and practices that privilege one subset of creativity while undermining another that is just as essential: scientific...