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On Tuesday, the Music Venue Trust (MVT) and Audoo announced a new partnership aimed at uncovering how music played in grassroots music venues is represented within performance royalty distribution administered by PRS for Music and related licensing systems. As part of the collaboration, Audoo’s proprietary “Audio Meter” technology will be deployed across “a statistically significant selection” of 12 grassroots music venues across the UK to capture exactly what music is being played in real time.

Source: MVT and Audoo Challenge PRS Proxies With Real-Time Tracking In Over 120 UK Venues

Trade body Digital Content Next (DCN), which represents many major US publishers, has sent a cease and desist letter via its lawyer to the web archive creator. They called on Common Crawl to immediately stop “scraping, retaining, or sharing copyrighted, paywalled, subscriber-only, or otherwise protected content from DCN member companies in its datasets.” They also requested that publisher content already in the Common Crawl datasets is removed.

Source: US publishers tell Common Crawl to stop scraping and delete archive

Google is introducing a new way for creators and publishers to promote their content on the search engine with “Search profiles.” The new feature comes amid consternation from website operators and creators that Google’s AI summaries have eroded the volume of referral traffic coming from the search portal. The internet giant describes Search profiles as a “dedicated, shareable space to highlight content across platforms.”

Source: Google Launches ‘Search Profiles’ for Creators and Companies

SoundExchange and IFPI have introduced a new capability that automatically assigns International Standard Recording Codes (ISRCs) to individual recordings. The functionality allows an ISRC to be assigned to a recording via an immediate online registration. It is designed to reduce administrative steps for small labels and self-releasing artists that do not own and manage large catalogs.

Source: SoundExchange and IFPI introduce automatic ISRC assignment for individual recordings

Google’s new AI features for Search signal a further shift away from publisher traffic despite the tools not yet being the default for users, according to SEO experts. The update includes users having the choice to continue searching in AI Mode through follow-up prompts from AI Overviews. The changes, initially revealed in January, could escalate fears for publishers already seeing reduced clickthroughs from Google Search.

Source: What Google AI Mode push means for publishers

The current crop of AI image-authenticity tools tends to do one thing. You upload a photograph, the tool returns a number. 73% likely AI-generated. 0.21 confidence of manipulation. The number is supposed to settle the question. It doesn’t, of course, because the number is a statistical probability that the image was entirely or partially generated by an AI. That’s it.

Source: AI agent as photography’s best fact-checker?

London-based The Mise En Scène Company has unveiled Human Provenance in Film, a no-cost AI disclosure standard for the film and TV industry, opening consultation at the Cannes Film Market and inviting participation from producers and distributors through to insurers, platforms, and exhibitors, with a deadline of Oct. 31. The standard is offered under a CC BY 4.0 open license – meaning any producer, distributor, or platform can adopt and adapt it freely without fee or permission, provided they credit the source.

Source: New AI Disclosure Standard for Film Launched at Cannes Film Market

Spotify has started testing a feature that shows whether artificial intelligence was used in making a song — but the tags only appear when an artist chooses to add them. The ‘AI Credits’ feature, currently in beta, was quietly disclosed within Spotify’s updated Support page. It shows AI contributions within the song credits section of Spotify’s mobile app. The move comes in response to growing pressure over AI-generated content on streaming platforms.

Source: Spotify to show AI tags in Song Credits