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Literary experts: Piracy, copyright continue to stifle digital publishing industries

Digital publishing industries continue to face competition from free and low-cost online materials, as well as piracy and intellectual property infringements, stakeholders in the publishing industry said, at the Sharjah International Book Fair in the UAE. Literary experts are now calling for the formulation of global policies on intellectual property rights to address these issues within the digital publishing sector.

Source: Literary experts: Piracy, copyright continue to stifle digital publishing industries

Universal and Amazon Music Strike Deal on Streaming 2.0, Audiobooks and AI Protection

Universal Music Group and Amazon Music have announced an expanded global relationship that will “enable further innovation, exclusive content with UMG artists, and advancement of artist-centric principles including increased fraud protection,” according to the announcement. While full details were not disclosed, the deal is intended to advance UMG’s “Streaming 2.0” strategy.

Source: Universal and Amazon Music Strike Deal to Collaborate on Streaming 2.0, Audiobooks and AI Protection

Brazilian judge imposes global streaming ban on Adele’s ‘Million Years Ago’ 

The injunction, issued by Judge Victor Torres in Rio de Janeiro’s sixth commercial court, requires Adele’s record labels, Sony Music and Universal Music Group, to stop “immediately and globally, from using, reproducing, editing, distributing or commercializing the song Million Years Ago, by any modality, means, physical or digital support, streaming or sharing platform.”

Source: Brazilian judge imposes streaming ban on Adele’s ‘Million Years Ago’ in plagiarism dispute

YouTube partners with Creative Artists Agency on AI deepfake recognition tools

YouTube will bring in talent from Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to help it build a tool to identify AI-generated content, including AI deepfakes of famous faces. As part of the collaboration, “several of the world’s most influential figures” will gain access to the tech YouTube is developing to “identify and manage” AI-generated content, YouTube said.

Source: YouTube partners with Creative Artists Agency on AI deepfake recognition tools

U.K. Could Grant Artists ‘Right to Personality’ in A.I. Regulation Review

The U.K. government is considering drafting new protections to safeguard artists from generative A.I. models that mimic their unique styles or likenesses, a measure being considered as a “right to personality.” Expected within two years, these regulations aim to address the growing clash between creative industries and A.I. developers over the use of copyrighted material in training algorithms.

Source: U.K. Could Grant Artists ‘Right to Personality’ in A.I. Regulation Review

YouTube is letting creators opt in to allowing third-party AI training

YouTube is rolling out a way for creators to let third-party companies use their videos to train AI models. To be clear, the default setting for this is off, meaning that if you don’t want to let third-party companies scrape your videos for AI training, you don’t have to do anything. But if, for some reason, you do want to allow that — Google says that “some creators and rights holders” may want to — it’s going to be an option.

Source: YouTube is letting creators opt in to allowing third-party AI training

UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI

Campaigners for the protection of the rights of creatives have criticised a UK government proposal to let artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms on their works under a new copyright exemption. Under the proposals, tech companies will be allowed to freely use copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence models unless creative professionals and companies opt out of the process.

Source: UK proposes letting tech firms use copyrighted work to train AI

‘Clean’ AI Video Model to Launch in Early 2025 Targeting Hollywood Clients 

A “clean” image and video generation model, trained exclusively on “ethically sourced” data, is being positioned for enterprise-grade productions in Hollywood next year as an alternative to offerings from tech giants accused of data scraping. The new model, dubbed “Marey,” after early cinema pioneer Étienne-Jules Marey, will be available in January or February 2025.

Source: ‘Clean’ AI Video Model to Launch in Early 2025 Targeting Hollywood Clients (EXCLUSIVE)

Merlin to AI Companies: Don’t Harvest Our Data

Like many organizations in the music industry, Merlin supports “AI products that aid human creativity, or provide new opportunities for artists to create and collaborate in developing new original works,” wrote the organization in a mission statement shared with Billboard. But it strongly opposes “any product, regardless of its purpose, that has been trained on Merlin members’ music without permission.”

Source: Merlin to AI Companies: Don’t Harvest Our Data

Music AI partners with Audible Magic to create music-swapping tool for TV and film

Music AI, an AI-powered audio technology company, has partnered with Audible Magic to help film and TV companies manage music licensing. Through Music AI’s cinematic stem separation technology, users will be able to break down video soundtracks into individual components like dialogue, background noise, and music. They will then be able to swap in new music when needed.

Source: Music AI partners with Audible Magic to create music-swapping tool for TV, video and film

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