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Adobe sets out its approach to AI art and copyrights for 2025

Adobe has been one of the biggest creative brands to embrace the potential of generative AI with Adobe Firefly, and in doing so has divided the creator community. But Adobe’s approach to including AI features in Photoshop and other software has been nuanced, and it’s been done in tandem with clear initiatives designed to protect artists and copyrights. The idea is to add creator-first AI tools to its software, as well as develop new AI-first tools, like Adobe Project Concept AI while setting up tools to protect ownership.

Source: Adobe sets out its approach to AI art and copyrights for 2025

OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025

Back in May, OpenAI said it was developing a tool to let creators specify how they want their works to be included in — or excluded from — its AI training data. But seven months later, this feature has yet to see the light of day. Called Media Manager, the tool would “identify copyrighted text, images, audio, and video,” to reflect creators’ preferences “across multiple sources.” It was intended to stave off some of the company’s fiercest critics, and potentially shield OpenAI from IP-related legal challenges.

Source: OpenAI failed to deliver the opt-out tool it promised by 2025

Is Amazon Music Plotting a 1,000-Stream Minimum for Royalties?

Is Amazon Music joining Spotify in establishing a 1,000-stream minimum before tracks can generate recording royalties? The question is front of mind – even if a concrete answer isn’t readily available – following the announcement of an “artist-centric” Universal Music deal. Amazon Music and UMG revealed that bolstered deal on Monday, pointing to a variety of components, the most interesting being the planned joint “advancement of artist-centric principles.”

Source: Is Amazon Music Plotting a 1,000-Stream Minimum for Royalties?

Music Publishers Reach Deal With AI Giant Anthropic Over Copyrighted Song Lyrics

A trio of major music publishers suing Anthropic over the use of lyrics to train its AI system have reached a deal with the Amazon-backed company to resolve some parts of a pending preliminary injunction. U.S. District Judge Eumi Lee on Thursday signed off on an agreement between the two sides mandating Anthropic to maintain existing guardrails that prevent its Claude AI chatbot from providing lyrics to songs owned by the publishers.

Source: Music Publishers Reach Deal With AI Giant Anthropic Over Copyrighted Song Lyrics

IFPI: Stream-Ripping Fuels Generative AI From Which Existential Threats Emerge 

For the past several years, the recording industry has branded stream-ripping services the leading piracy threat. On the near horizon, the industry claims that the rise of generative AI presents a new and rapidly evolving challenge for the music ecosystem that threatens its long-term sustainability. According to global industry group IFPI, stream-ripping is likely fueling this secondary threat.

Source: IFPI: Stream-Ripping Fuels Generative AI From Which Existential Threats Emerge * TorrentFreak

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

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