Fair Culture Charter
The document Fair Culture Charter supports the creation and strengthening of a movement for Fair Culture that wants to achieve decent working conditions for all artists, creatives, and other cultural workers.
Many artists, creatives, and cultural workers worldwide live and work under precarious conditions, in particular in Low and Middle Income Countries. 95 % of all exports of cultural goods and services originate in High Income Countries. The Covid-19 pandemic worsened inequalities even further. Digital platform economies and Artificial Intelligence change all value chains, very often not for the better for artists, creatives, and cultural workers.
While UNESCO has created binding international law (with its 2005 Convention on Cultural Diversity), more momentum, more commitment, more partners, more networks are needed.
This is what this Charter, inspired by the Fairtrade Charter, wants to achieve. And thus, decent working conditions for all artists, creatives and other cultural workers worldwide.
The Charter strengthens fairer cultural relationships by articulating a preamble, a definition, four objectives and eight principles intended to promote a sustainable, fair and respectful environment for artists, creatives, and other cultural workers, and, therefore, to safeguard cultural diversity globally.