Welcome to KLYS - The Swedish Joint Committée for Artistic and Literary Professionals - an umbrella for 18 artist organisations representing about 30 000 individual members. Our main task is to protect the importance of culture in society, to work for better access to culture and to safeguard the artists´ right to fair compensation for their work.

2010-01-07

Response of KLYS and Copyswede to the EU Commission Reflection document Creative Content in a European Digital Single Market

2009-12-04

Peter Curman - former president of KLYS - has received the International Quaid-i-Azam Award for Literature. The award ceremony took place in Islamabad on November 26.
"Poetry and Peace", speech held by Peter Curman at the ceremony

2009-11-17

European Council of Artist's comment to the EU Commission's Communication "Reviewing Community Innovation Policy in a Changing World" 

2009-11-05 - Statement made by the International Authors Forum in Oslo:

Authors of the world: Co-operate now! Authors today face enormous challenges. To meet these, we need to better understand the underlying issues as well as strengthen our international efforts and agree on an effective coping strategy to deal with increasingly on-line and therefore global issues.