“Thank you to the jury committee for organizing this workshop and for the thanks to the expert and the representative of the creative sectors for sharing their analysis and their views, for proposing ideas, options and recommendation. This idea really contribute to assess this very complex topic of copyright and AI under different perspective. And we find it very valuable. So I will start just by reminding the copyright framework that we have in the EU. As you know, it is based on a number of exclusive rights which allow the right holders to authorise or prohibit the use of their works. And we have also, in the EU acquis a number of copyright exceptions to facilitate certain types of uses of protected works. The text and data mining exception, which has been mentioned this morning, has become increasingly relevant in the context of AI because the training of the models requires access to a vast amount of data, and the TDM techniques are being used in this manner.”