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Tag: Artist Rights
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Japan creates public performance right for recorded music
The Japanese government has approved an amendment to the Japanese Copyright Act regarding music playback in public spaces. Performing artists and record companies will now be paid when their recorded music is […]
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US songwriter and artist organisations urge Copyright Office to reconsider fees
The American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) led a host of other independent music organisations in opposing the US Copyright Office’s proposed increase to copyright registration fees. These are the […]
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Creators’ needs now: how SACEM is adapting to new modes of creation
This is the second episode in a two-part series about the evolution of CMOs – recorded as collective management organisations undergo their most significant transformation in decades. In this episode, Sacem’s […]
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US music bodies weigh in to publishers’ Anthropic lawsuit
A group of music publishers are continuing to sue AI firm Anthropic for copyright infringement, focusing on its alleged use of their lyrics to train its Claude model, as well […]
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Music-makers want ‘consent, control and compensation’ from AI deals
As part of our coverage of developments with AI and music, we’ve been writing about some of the tensions within the music industry around deals with GenAI companies. Rightsholders have […]
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Stem co-founder launches startup to tackle black-box royalties
If we had a pound for every time someone tried to solve the music industry’s ‘black box’ royalties problems… well, we’d have a certain number of pounds, we can’t tell […]
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Spotify hits back at ‘misinformation’ on its terms for artists
Have you seen the viral video about how Spotify has changed its terms and conditions to let it pass the rights to artists’ music onto, well, anyone it likes? Plenty […]
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How data-driven tools are changing the way artists and labels finance their businesses
Peter Sinclair, CEO & Co-Founder, beatBread For independent artists and labels, navigating funding offers can feel like a gamble. What if a release underperforms? What if an album rollout doesn’t […]
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Five lines of code worth asking for
This is a guest column by Benji Rogers, co-founder of AI attribution startup Sureel and founder of PledgeMusic. He believes that rightsholders are in a “rare” moment of leverage – and that they must now demand transparency in the age of generative AI.
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Sound Royalties’ CEO and founder Alex Heiche on a decade of music financing
Artists, songwriters and music rightsholders can now free up capital using their music in so many ways, and the old days of simply seeking advances from labels or publishers are […]
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Fairly Trained adds more supporters and updates certification
Fairly Trained is the scheme set up by AI-music veteran Ed Newton-Rex to certify companies who don’t train their models on material without consent from its creators / rightsholders. The […]
