A growing number of writers’ unions and guilds in all regions are affiliated with UNI. Protecting the creativity is the most important task of writers’ organisation in order to safeguard the basis for the writers’ remuneration and creative freedom. Thus, the protection of authors’ rights is at the centre of UNI-MEI’s writers’ group policy. UNI-MEI is active at the European and at WIPO level to influence legislation on intellectual property in order to protect the interest of writers around the world. The regulation of the audiovisual markets is a major concern to writers: the growing concentration of ownership in the audiovisual industry in particular is a threat to creativity and has a negative impact on writers’ job opportunities. UNI-MEI and its affiliates are taking actions at national and international level aiming at reinforcing ownership rules in the media to protect creativity. UNI-MEI’s writers group is also concerned with a wide range of issues, which are common to al freelance and independent workers such as social security, integration into pension schemes, legal status, management of rights and taxation regimes.