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Creativity Works! has joined 93 organisations from Europe’s creative and cultural sectors that are asking Members of the European Parliament to support the Legal Affairs (JURI) mandate on the Copyright Directive report during the Plenary vote on 5 July.

Ahead of the Plenary vote, there has been an intense disinformation campaign pushed by Big Tech. However, supportive MEPs such as MEP Giorgos Grammatikakis and his colleagues, alongside creative industry associations are bringing the disinformation to light. Learn more here:

• What Article 13 is about and not about (in English, in German, in French, in Polish, in Spanish and in Italian)
• “False Spam Campaign on Copyrights” email signed and sent by MEP Giorgos Grammatikakis and several colleagues to MEPs.
• An article of the FT focusing on Google and its strategy
• An article of Reuters with the reactions of some rightholders’ representatives
• An article of ElectronLibre about the harassment of MEPs (related to the Big Tech campaign)
• A call from the creative sectors to support the JURI mandate to enter into negotiations on the basis of the adopted report next week (signed by 93 organisations for the moment but with more and more signatories still joining) – attached