As part of the awareness and educational activities of copyrightschool.gr, the HCO carried out two visits to schools in Monemvasia:
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The event organized by the Hellenic Copyright Organization as part of the 2026 European Cultural Heritage Days took place successfully on Friday, 18 September 2026, at the Monemvasia Tourist Pavilion, under the theme “Copyright and Cultural Heritage at Risk: Access, Protection and Revival in the Digital Age.” The event provided an opportunity to highlight the relationship between copyright and cultural heritage and to discuss the challenges and opportunities arising from digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence for the protection, management and access to cultural content.
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On Friday, 11 September, an international conference entitled “Generative Traditions: Living Heritage and Artificial Intelligence. New Horizons – Exploring Cultural Possibilities” was held at the National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum in Athens. The conference was organised by the Ministry of Culture, through the Directorate of Modern Cultural Heritage, in cooperation with the Secretariat of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, with the support of the Permanent Delegation of Greece to UNESCO.
The Hellenic Copyright Organization is once again organizing an event as part of the European Heritage Days 2026. The event, entitled “Copyright and Cultural Heritage at Risk: Access, Protection and Revival in the Digital Age”, will take place on September 18, 2026, in Monemvasia.
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WIPO – Intellectual Property and Esports
The World Intellectual Property Organization has published the edition “Intellectual Property and Esports”, which examines the relationship between intellectual property and the rapidly growing esports ecosystem.
Law No. 5324/2026 has been published under the title: “Establishment of a private law legal entity under the name ‘Hellenic Heritage Organisation SA’, Reorganisation of the Cultural Resources Development and Management Organisation (O.D.A.P.) – Strategy for the protection and promotion of Greece’s underwater cultural heritage – Establishment of a Management Body for Accessible Underwater Cultural Heritage Sites – Implementation of the national action plan for the development of the Audiovisual Creative Sector (A.C.S.) – Provisions for the protection of antiquities and cultural heritage – Management and distribution of unallocated copyright royalties – Issues concerning the Hellenic Copyright Organisation and other supervised entities of the Ministry of Culture” (Official Government Gazette Issue A’ 121/30.07.2026).
This law introduces amendments and addendums to the Law 2121/1993 and to the Law 4481/2017 (PART E, CHAPTER D, Articles 115 – 118 and 130 para. 1). The provisions of Articles 119, 120, and 129 constitute standalone provisions of the new Law.
You can view the full text of the law here.
As of August 2, 2026, the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities are starting the enforcement of the AI Act, introducing strict transparency and oversight obligations.
Under the new rules, AI systems are now required to inform users whenever they are interacting with AI (e.g., chatbots). Deepfakes (images, video, audio) must be clearly labeled, while AI-generated content will carry special machine-readable marks for easier detection.
The Commission published a new study assessing the policy feasibility and technical feasibility of establishing an EU-level registry for the text and data mining exception.
The study falls within the framework of Article 4 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (Directive 2019/790), which provides a relevant framework for the use of protected content in training AI models.
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