ABBA member and CISAC president Björn Ulvaeus took the stage at the United Nations’ AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva on Monday (July 13) to ask a simple question: “Good for whom?” “Tracing the output was always the wrong question,” he said. “The right question is much simpler. It is about the training. Our works went in. We should be paid for what went in, not for every output that comes out the other end, but for the raw material that made the machine what it is.”

Source: ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus Talks AI Training at UNSummit: Artists ‘Deserve a Place at the Table’

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised “the strongest possible protection” for Australian creatives against misuse of their work by artificial intelligence models, warning it would be “theft” if writers, artists and musicians didn’t have control of their work or receive payment for its use. “Let me make this crystal clear: not everything produced in Australia is up for grabs,” Albanese said on Wednesday. “Australian writers, musicians, artists and journalists must retain ownership and control of their work. Our laws will spell that out, plain as day.”

Source: Australia establishes AI office and vows to protect creatives from copyright ‘theft’

Phonorecords V is the latest installment in a five-yearly cycle in which the Board sets the statutory mechanical rate under Section 115 of the US Copyright Act – the royalty owed each time a song is reproduced and distributed, from a vinyl pressing to a download. The settlement was filed on June 29 by the three major record companies, indie labels, and the industry’s main publisher and songwriter bodies.

Source: CRB proposes extending physical and download mechanical rates through 2032