AEPO-ARTIS

To follow, @renateschroeder.bsky.social (from @efjeurope.bsky.social ), Ioan Kaes (from @aepoartis.bsky.social), and Stefan Kaufmann (from @wikimediade.bsky.social ) will move beyond polarized AI debates to practical solutions in a panel discussion moderated by @paulk.bsky.social.

❗Together with other stakeholders, AEPO-ARTIS urged EU policy-makers to ensure that #music is not only funded but strategically supported in the next EU budget.

Read the whole call for a comprehensive policy strategy and ambitious budget for Europe’s music sector within AgoraEU below👇

❣️ 🇪🇺 Honoured to have officially become a stakeholder of European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights

Looking forward to working together &with other stakeholders!
#performers#euipo #intellectualproperty #copyright
shorturl.at/McPVI

🎶 Today we had an excellent opportunity t to present the Music360, a project that we are a partner in.

🙏 Thank you Reeperbahn Festival l for having us!

Learn more about the project here: 👇

music-360.eu

#performers #music #musicians #copyright

🎶 Coming to Reeperbahn Festival?

➡️Join us on Friday, 19/9 for a panel "The Impact of Music–What Science tells us" where our Head of Legal Nick Yule will speak on Music360
project that we're a partner in.

✅See you at East Hotel/Bacardi Lounge 10.30-11.30
shorturl.at/Y0STF

AI: European Commission caves in to Big Tech to the detriment of authors Following the publication of the so-called “transparency template” by the European Commissions AI Office on 24 July, most AI model providers will be ...

Following the publication of the so-called “transparency template” by @ec.europa.eu AI Office on 24 July, most #AI model providers will be required to publish summaries of training data as of 2 August 2025. But these templates still does not meet the expectations of the media and creative sectors 👇

❌ We see the recently published GPAI Code of Practice, the GPAI Guidelines, and the Template for disclosure of a sufficiently detailed summary as a missed opportunity to provide real protection of IP rights in the context of #genAI. This outcome does not deliver on the promise of the EU AI Act.

❗ Together with a broad coalition of rightsholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors, we express our strong concerns about the EU AI Act implementing package, which does not provide a meaningful implementation of the GPAI obligations under the AI Act.

➡️ Read: bit.ly/3H8lCsC

Picture with the Logos of 40 organisations in the arts and culture sector and Text: „We are being sold out in favour of GenAI model providers“: Joint Statement on the GPAI Code of Practice and the template by 40 Federations of the European Cultural and Creative Sectors

Picture with Text: We call on the European Parliament and Member States, as co-legislators, to challenge the unsatisfactory process of this exercise.

Picture with Text: Code, Guidelines and Template are for the sole benefit of the GenAI model providers that continuously infringe copyright and related rights to build their models.

"A betrayal of the EU AI Act’s objectives”
„We are being sold out in favour of GenAI model providers“:

Joint Statement on the GPAI Code of Practice and the template by 40 Federations of the European Cultural and Creative Sectors

europeanwriterscouncil.eu/ccs-joint-st...

#AIAct #CodeOfPractice

🚨 We call on the European Commission to revisit the implementation package and enforce Article 53 in a meaningful way, ensuring that the EU AI Act lives up to its promise to safeguard European intellectual property rights in the age of generative AI.

JOINT STATEMENT BY A BROAD COALITION OF RIGHTSHOLDERS ACTIVE ACROSS THE EU’S CULTURAL AND CREATIVE SECTORS REGARDING THE AI ACT IMPLEMENTATION MEASURES ADOPTED BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION - IMPALA Representing a broad coalition of European and global authors, performers, publishers, producers and other rightsholder organisations, we wish to formally express our dissatisfaction with the publishe...

A broad coalition of rightsholders calls on the @ec.europa.eu to revisit the #AIAct implementation package and enforce article 53 dealing with transparency of training data in a meaningful way.

Read the statement👉 fep-fee.eu/40-European-...

@teresaribera.ec.europa.eu @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social @eu2025dk.bsky.social

@europeanwriterscouncil.eu @aepoartis.bsky.social @ceatl.bsky.social @efjeurope.bsky.social @screendirectors.eu @ifpiorg.bsky.social @ifjglobal.bsky.social @ifrro.org

UMG are getting a bit touchy about all this, no?

✌️peace and love guys ✌️

A first look into the JURI draft report on copyright and AI Last week saw the first draft of the long-anticipated own-initiative report on copyright and generative artificial intelligence authored by Axel Voss for the JURI Committee (download as a PDF file). T...

The EP's own initiative report on #copyright and #GenAI is out!

Our positive takeaways:
🔸fair remuneration for creators
🔸central opt-out register
🔸public domain status of non-original AI outputs

Initial concerns:
🔸challenges AI Act interpretation on AI training
🔸measures on infringing outputs

It’s Time for Fair Play — AM Radio Must Pay Artists #IRespectMusic Congress is debating whether to mandate AM radio in all new vehicles — but broadcasters still refuse to pay artists when they play recorded music.

musictechpolicy.com/2025/06/10/i...

"IT’S TIME FOR FAIR PLAY — AM RADIO MUST PAY ARTISTS #IRESPECTMUSIC"

Good luck to our friends across the water

💡 ➡️ Interesting discussion at our conference "Performers' FAIR remuneration as an EU objective". Stakeholders got together - from #performers to policymakers and industry to discuss the concept of fair remuneration, role of the Beijing Treaty for #actors and impact of #AI.

#copyright

Hi Paul, we should talk. Very interested in the Sade background (especially from the legal point of view). Cheers, Nick (nick.yule@aepo-artis.org)

Will the role of creators in AI development be protected and valorized? 🤔
EVA joins the campaign #StayTrueToTheAct 💪 to reiterate the shortcomings of the 3rd draft of the CoP, which does not meet the adequacy requirement provided by the EU AI Act, endangered the Act as a whole 👉 staytruetotheact.eu

❣️ AEPO-ARTIS family is growing ❣️

⭐ A warm welcome to our 41st member, AVIP, the Croatian Audiovisual Performers’ Collecting Society🎬 🎞️ ❤️ We look forward to defending performers' rights together! 🥰

#performers #audiovisual #actors #acting #actorslife #copyright #intellectualproperty #Croatia

MU Joins Demo to Highlight Creators’ AI Concerns Ahead of Parliament Debate The MU took part in a demo outside parliament today, organised by UK Music, to highlight creator and performer concerns about the potential impact of generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) on their r...

💛 Thanks to @alexsobel.co.uk and Victoria Collins MP for proposing these amendments, and @ukmusic.bsky.social for organising a demo in support

"A I systems should not be trained on existing copyright works without creator consent and meaningful compensation" - yellow graphic with black and white elements and text. Underneath is the logo "M U Musicians' Union"

The MU is also campaigning for:

✅ explicit consent to be sought from human creators to use their works to train AI models

🏷️ labelling of AI-generated works so people can choose what they listen to

⚖️ music creators and performers to be guaranteed a fair share of the revenue generated by AI music

“24% - new research shows that 24% of music creators’ pay is at risk from AI music over the next five years if legal frameworks aren’t updated *source: International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers” with the logo "M U Musicians' Union"

📉 Why does it matter?

24% of music creators’ pay is at risk from AI music over the next five years if legal frameworks aren’t updated - and transparency would be an important first step

Photo of Musicians' Union General Secretary Naomi Pohl in sunglasses and a "Musicians' Union says Keep Music Live" t-shirt, Matt Taylor from the Music Producers Guild and Alex Sobel M P outside Parliament holding a sign that says "Make it fair. Don't let A I steal our music. Just ask me first!"

❗ Stop AI stealing our music!

We're outside Parliament with musicians, music creators and @ukmusic.bsky.social supporting amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill that would increase transparency in relation to training AI models

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Poster for Creators for Europe United petition

European Writers Council Open Letter on AI

'Protect Europe’s creative soul, protect European values and works'

'We kindly invite you to:
Sign the open letter together with many other creatives from all sectors'

www.writing.ie/news/europea...

#openletterCFEunited

📣 Ahead of the Education, Youth, Culture and Sport Council on 12–13 May, a broad coalition of organisations representing writers, screen directors, performers, composers, and other creative professionals has published an open letter to EU Culture Ministers.

Full letter 👉 tinyurl.com/mu46ff6a

Ben Lunn standing at the front of a conference room and speaking at STUC Congress 2025

Ben Lunn supporting a motion on the impact of AI and copyright legislation on creative industries, artist and cultural workers

“We need to make sure that humanity is at the centre of these modernisations. It is not just about protecting creative work - it’s about protecting labour”

✔️Motion carried

Music Canada applies to intervene in appeal of CRTC’s base contribution decision - Music Canada Today, Music Canada filed an application with the Federal Court of Appeal seeking leave to intervene in the ongoing appeal of the CRTC’s base contributions decision, which imposed a 5% levy on the major music streaming platforms operating in Canada. Specifically, we are asking the court to consider music streaming services’ direct investments in Canada […]

musiccanada.com/news/music-c...

DEEPLY moved by the concerns that the Canadian majors’ trade body have for “Canadian and Indigenous artists”

The fact that new legislation means that “30% of platform contributions will be siphoned away from the MUSIC INDUSTRY…” is purely coincidental we suppose.

Major labels want to formally intervene in legal case to oppose Canadian streaming levy The major record companies want to intervene in the legal case challenging the proposed streaming levy in Canada. The major labels, unlike the indies, oppose the levy, and say they are “uniquely posit...

completemusicupdate.com/major-labels...

Wow, that's a surprise.

@cmuhq.bsky.social

🇪🇺 🇵🇱 Last week Brussels moved to Poland - our Head of Legal, Nick Yule, had the at the conference on "Impact of #ArtificialIntelligence (#AI) on Media and Creative Industries" in Łódź, organised by the Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Playing to a sold-out Ancienne Belgique... the dream comes true!