Music Rights Awareness Foundation, an apolitical organization founded by ABBA member Björn Ulvaeus and producer Max Martin, has joined forces with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to launch a new platform designed to enhance creators’ understanding of intellectual property (IP) rights and related management practices.
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Music Rights Awareness Foundation Launches New Online Platform
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Music Rights Awareness Foundation have announced the launch of a new online platform to raise creators’ awareness of intellectual property rights and related management practices. CLIP — Creators Learn Intellectual Property — is an innovative, user-friendly, and free-to-use online learning platform that will be filled with curated content from experienced musicians and mentors to help creators make better business decisions.
Source: Music Rights Awareness Foundation Launches New Online Platform
Canada’s Trudeau warned: Tech giant battle could mean doom for small news outlets
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s lifeline for Canada’s struggling media industry could instead spell disaster, digital start-ups and freelancers warned his office as it was doubling down on the Online News Act. Documents obtained by POLITICO through an Access-to-Information request reveal urgent appeals from freelancers and small news outlets who spelled out for top officials what would happen if they lost access to sharing news through both Google and Meta.
Source: Tech giant battle means doom for small news outlets, Trudeau was warned
Actors’ AI Protections Are a Step Forward, But There’s Reason to Worry
Of the 16-page summary detailing the tentative deal between SAG-AFTRA and the studios, more than five are spent on provisions over artificial intelligence. The document cites the establishment of a “broad, protective” definition of generative artificial intelligence, along with requirements surrounding notice, consent and compensation around digital replicas of actors and “synthetic performers” created by AI tools.
Source: Actors’ AI Protections Are a Step Forward, But There’s Reason to Worry
As Hollywood Starts Back Up, So Too Do Music Supervision & the Synch Business
With Hollywood going back to work, TV shows and movies have already resumed sending out briefs to publishers and record labels requesting songs for key dramatic moments and soundtracks. “It’s definitely a relief,” says Alison Dannenberg Frost, vp of film and TV creative for music publisher peermusic. “We saw a slowdown on the creative side and licenses coming in the door. We really just started seeing it affecting our monthly numbers.”
Source: As Hollywood Starts Back Up, So Too Do Music Supervision & the Synch Business
Got a YouTube Copyright Claim? Here’s How to Resolve It
YouTube is making efforts to streamline its copyright claim process, providing more options in the hopes of helping creators amend their uploads when a copyright claim (or “copy strike”) is submitted. The changes will also alert creators of multiple claims in a single notification instead of presenting each claim as a separate email, further helping creators to quickly and easily amend their uploads.
Source: Got a YouTube Copyright Claim? Here’s How to Resolve It
YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians
YouTube will have two sets of content guidelines for AI-generated deepfakes: a very strict set of rules to protect the platform’s music industry partners, and another, looser set for everyone else. That’s the explicit distinction laid out today in a company blog post, which goes through the platform’s early thinking about moderating AI-generated content.
Source: YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians
CD Baby unveils CDB Boost feature to help indie songwriters get paid
The independent music distributor under Downtown Music Holdings has launched CDB Boost, the latest addition to CD Baby’s suite of artist-centric tools, offering a new approach to royalty management for a one-time fee of $39.99 per single or album. CDB Boost’s tools include features such as mechanical royalty collection facilitated by the Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) and non-interactive digital performance royalty collections through SoundExchange.
Source: CD Baby unveils CDB Boost feature to help indie songwriters get paid
Video-making app Canva launches library of licensed music from Warner, Merlin and other rightsholders
Users of the drag-and-drop-style video creation tool will have access to more than “half a million songs” from artists in a wide range of genres, including Michael Buble, Vance Joy, Kenya Grace and Curtis Mayfield – while music rights holders gain a new source of revenue. The move marks a significant improvement in the world of video-making apps, where creators have thus far had to manage with public-domain or low-quality tracks.
Warner Music Group Joins Deezer Artist-Centric System in France
Following the amply-discussed UMG-Deezer partnership, Warner Music Group (WMG) is now also endorsing Deezer’s artist-centric royalty system. In an interview published today on LesEchos, Alain Veille, President of Warner Music France, revealed WMG’s support for the Deezer model. “As we’ve consistently said, we’re committed to working with the streaming platforms to evolve business models to better reflect the value and fan engagement driven by artists, songwriters and their art.”
Source: Warner Music Group Joins Deezer Artist-Centric System in France