Meta could face millions in fines for not signing content deals in Australia

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Meta and other tech companies refusing to sign content deals with Australian news outlets face millions in new fines, with Labor’s proposed media bargaining incentive set to impose penalties based on the local revenue of major platforms. Large social media and search platforms with Australian-derived revenue of at least $250m will be subject to the new rules, irrespective of whether they carry news content, according to new detail released by the assistant treasurer, Daniel Mulino.

Source: Meta could face millions in fines for not signing content deals in Australia

Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine Ink Deals for AI-Generated Versions of Their Voices With ElevenLabs

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Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have teamed with AI audio company ElevenLabs to produce virtual replications of their famous voices. McConaughey also is investing an undisclosed sum in New York-based ElevenLabs. He’s collaborated with the company since it was founded in 2022. Now McConaughey is using ElevenLabs’ technology to bring a Spanish-language audio version of his newsletter “Lyrics of Livin’” in his own voice.

Source: Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine Ink Deals for AI-Generated Versions of Their Voices With ElevenLabs

Tilly Norwood Creator on Hollywood Backlash, Creating Jobs and Full AI Movies

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Eline Van der Velden, the creator of AI actress Tilly Norwood, says the character is a work of art that sparked a conversation. “I didn’t think it was controversial,” she says. The performers’ union, SAG-AFTRA, disagreed, denouncing her for “devaluing human artistry” and threatening actors’ jobs. Van der Velden countered that no one’s job was impacted and that Tilly Norwood required a lot of human artistry, just of a different kind.

Source: Tilly Norwood Creator on Hollywood Backlash, Creating Jobs and Full AI Movies: ‘I Don’t Think’ People Will ‘Know the Difference’

Epidemic Sound unveils AI ‘Studio’ tool to generate video soundtracks

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The Stockholm-based music licensing platform on Tuesday (November 11) said Studio analyzes uploaded videos and generates a synchronized soundtrack using music from its catalog along with ambient sounds and foley effects. The tool draws on data from more than 3 billion daily plays across online platforms to match audio to video content, Epidemic Sound said, while ensuring that Studio delivers “a cohesive, legally safe soundtrack seamlessly synced to the visuals.”

Source: Epidemic Sound unveils AI ‘Studio’ tool to generate video soundtracks

50,000 AI-music tracks are now uploaded to Deezer every day

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Deezer says that roughly 50,000 fully AI-generated tracks are now uploaded every day, accounting for 34% of all music delivered to it. The new figures were published alongside the findings from a survey Deezer commissioned from Ipsos, covering 9,000 people in eight countries: the US, Japan, UK, Germany, France, Brazil, the Netherlands and Canada. The most eye-catching finding is that the survey involved respondents listening to two fully AI-generated tracks and one human song, then guessing which ones were AI. 97% failed the test.

Source: 50,000 AI-music tracks are now uploaded to Deezer every day

Publishing’s Survival Depends on Data, Says Elsevier Chairman

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At last week’s Sharjah Publishers Conference, Y.S. Chi warned that publishers need to build richer data infrastructures or face extinction.  “No publisher will survive five years from today if they don’t have data,” he said last week at the 15th Sharjah Publishers Conference. “I don’t care how well you edit and publish books. If you don’t have data, you will make wrong decisions.” At the top of his agenda was addressing perhaps the most urgent threat to publishing: artificial intelligence. “You can’t do AI unless you have data,” Chi explained.

Source: Publishing’s Survival Depends on Data, Says Elsevier Chairman

Redditor Convicted for Sharing Nude Scenes in Landmark ‘Moral Rights’ Copyright Case

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A Danish court has handed down a historic verdict, convicting a Reddit moderator in the country’s first-ever criminal case for violating copyright’s “right of respect”. The now 40-year-old man was given a 7-month suspended prison term for sharing 347 nude scenes featuring actresses from Danish films and TV shows on the “SeDetForPlottet” subreddit. The man also shared over 25 terabytes of pirated content on private torrent tracker Superbits.org.

Source: Redditor Convicted for Sharing Nude Scenes in Landmark ‘Moral Rights’ Copyright Case * TorrentFreak

Wikipedia Urges AI Companies to Stop Website Scraping

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The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia, issued a call to artificial intelligence (AI) developers and companies to stop scraping information from the Wikipedia site and instead use its paid, opt-in API platform, Wikimedia Enterprise, to “responsibly” access its content. A Monday (Nov. 10) blog post explained that making Wikimedia Enterprise a paid service sustains Wikipedia’s global volunteer editor base and nonprofit funding model.

Source: Wikipedia Urges AI Companies to Stop Website Scraping | PYMNTS.com

Why Music Investors Flocked to South Florida for GoldState’s ‘Conversations in Music’

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Goldstuck has been convening exclusive thought-leadership meetings for decades in his many roles. He’s the founder of The Sanctuary at Albany, a state-of-the-art recording studio and music academy in the Bahamas; the executive chairman of TouchTunes Interactive Networks. But the South African philanthropist said that this year’s event marked his first event of such scale and urgency, reflecting the speed at which industry dynamics are changing.

Source: Why Music Investors Flocked to South Florida for GoldState’s ‘Conversations in Music’

Spotify, NMPA Partner on New Audiovisual Revenue Stream for Music Creators

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Spotify and the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA) have joined forces to create a new opt-in license for NMPA members to enter into a direct license agreement for “expanded audiovisual rights” in the U.S., according to a press release about the deal. NMPA members can sign up using a portal, and the deal is said to increase the royalty-earning potential of participating publishers and writers by offering them a new audiovisual royalty stream.

Source: Spotify and NMPA Partner to Launch New Audiovisual Revenue Stream for Music Creators

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