Artificial Intelligence as a tool of the creative process in the audiovisual industry

Clara Ruipérez de Azcárate holds a PhD in Law, LL.M. from the Humboldt University of Berlin and is a specialist in intellectual property law. She is the author of several books and articles on cultural industries, copyright and artificial intelligence.

After working in the IP & Media departments of Garrigues and Baker & McKenzie, she has worked as a business and production lawyer in the audiovisual industry at Telefónica Studios, Movistar+ and Netflix.

She is currently Director of Content Legal Strategy and Digital Transformation at Telefónica and Secretary of the Board of Directors of Movistar+.

Ibán García del Blanco was a Member of the European Parliament during the 9th parliamentary term, from July 2019 to July 2024. In his role as coordinator of the Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Group in the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, he was, among other things, part of the negotiating team for the Artificial Intelligence Act, rapporteur for the legislative initiative on the ethical aspects of artificial intelligence, robotics and related technologies and for the opinion on the Data Act, and co-rapporteur for the own-initiative report on virtual worlds. As a member of the Committee on Culture and Education, he was rapporteur for the own-initiative report on “Cultural Diversity and Conditions for Authors in the European Streaming Music Market”.

He is a member of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Spanish National Library.

Ibán García del Blanco has a degree in law. As a lawyer, he has specialised in cultural management.

Graduate in Law and Business Administration and Management (E3 programme) from the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE), member of the Higher Corps of Civil Administrators of the Stat since 2012 and Undersecretary of State for Culture since 27 February 2024.

She began her career in the public sector at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, where she was Deputy Assistant Director of Intellectual Property and advisor to the entities managing intellectual property rights. In 2016, she took up the post of Deputy Assistant Director for International Relations and Foreign Affairs at the Ministry of the Interior, and subsequently became Head of the Support Unit of the Directorate General for International Relations of the same Ministry. In 2019, she returned to the Ministry of Culture and Sport, where she held the positions of Deputy Director General for Cooperation and International Promotion of Culture and Deputy Director General for the Promotion of Cultural Industries until October 2022, when she was appointed Secretary General of the EOI Foundation, F.S.P. (School of Industrial Organisation) of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism.

She held the post of Director General for Cultural Industries, Intellectual Property and Cooperation until her appointment as Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Culture on 27 February 2024.

She has given courses and lectures on intellectual property, international relations and administrative law at various institutions, including the National Institute of Public Administration (INAP). She was awarded the White Cross of the Order of Police Merit in 2018.

Born in Italy, Alberto has developed his entire career in Spain, alternating between production and writing tasks for film and television.
His credits as film executive producer include titles such as the horror saga “[REC]”, or “The Way” (dir. Emilio Estévez)

Among his film writing credits are titles like “Sleep Tight” (winner of the Gaudí Award for best screenplay), “El Desconocido/Retribution” (nominated for the Goya Awards for best screenplay), “Your Son” or “El 47”.

In television, Alberto has been responsible for the development of the series “Red Bracelets” (Filmax/TVC whose remake in the United States was produced by S. Spielberg, “The Red Band Society”). He is the co-creator of the series “The Unit” (Movistar, its third season winner of the Spanish TV Academy Award for best series of the year) and “Marbella” (Movistar), and a writer for episodes of series such as “Stories to Stay Awake” (Amazon/TVE/ZDF) and “Offworld” (Movistar, in Serie Mania official competition).

Detailed list of movies and series on IMDB.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1157609/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Law graduate and career civil servant in the Senior Civil Service of Spain. He is currently attached to the Permanent Representation of Spain to the European Union as Counsellor for Culture and Audiovisual Affairs. He has been Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Culture and Sport, Deputy Director-General for Cooperation and Competitiveness in Tourism at the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade, Financial Director of Acción Cultural Española and Deputy Director-General for Music and Dance and Human Resources at the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.