Cultural and creative workers

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Cultural and creative workers

Cultural and creative workers refers to all persons working in the CCS in occupations that involve tasks and duties of creating, producing and disseminating cultural goods and services, which generally embody creative expressions protected by intellectual property rights and generate, develop, preserve or reflect cultural or symbolic meaning. The terms cultural and creative ‘workers’ and ‘professionals’ are used interchangeably in this report. It is important to note that the term is not defined at EU level; this is a Member State competence (“The status and working conditions of artists and cultural and creative professionals”, report of the OMC (open method of coordination) working group of member states’ experts, June 2023).