Javier Sierra, CEDRO 2026 award: “We are in the middle of an epic battle for the defense of copyright”

The writer Javier Sierra This Wednesday he collected the CEDRO 2026 Awardawarded for his “contribution to the defense of copyright and written culture.”

“We face an epic struggle on two fronts: on the one hand, achieving material management, with planetary scope, of copyright, which includes the uses that AI makes of our books. But, on the other, contain the threats to originality and creative freedom that the algorithms that feed this Artificial Intelligence are leading us to“explained the journalist.

Sierra has assured that the way in which “both challenges” are overcome will be what dictates “both the economic future and the intellectual solvency of literature.”

On its tenth anniversary, the Spanish Center for Reprographic Rights (CEDRO) has awarded Sierra, for having been “anti piracy speaker“, according to the president of the entity, Carme Riera.

“Javier has been a speaker against piracy, has called for the leadership of Public Administrations in strengthening written culture and has warned of the challenges that AI poses for creators and for society as a whole. Ten years later, that commitment remains more necessary than ever, as we are seeing with the issue of AI“Riera pointed out.