Merlin and Udio sign AI deal
Following its agreement with Eleven Labs last summer, Merlin today announced a license with music AI Udio. The signing of a licensing agreement between Merlin and Udio’s music AI, announced today, is part of a now familiar sequence: rights holders seeking to regulate, rather than suffer, the use of their…
Fight against piracy : rights holders and Parliament are still waiting for a clear signal from the Commission.
In the European Parliament, the diagnosis is unanimous: content piracy, particularly live streaming, thrives on loopholes in the current framework and fuels a structured criminal economy. Rights holders and MEPs are calling for action. The Commission, for its part, recognizes the limitations of its approach, but has not yet committed…
Digital Fairness Act: abusive ticket reselling enters the debate
Many artists and festivals are calling on the European Commission to use its future Digital Fairness Act, currently in preparation, to adopt concrete measures against the illegal resale of event tickets. Still in preparation, the future Digital Fairness Act is shaping up to be one of the defining pieces of…
Opt-out and generative AI: the Commission called upon to prove that its model works
The European Commission has been very active in defending the applicability of Article 4 of the Copyright Directive to generative AI, and in inviting rights holders to use their right to opt-out to protect their works. The written question submitted at the end of December by several MEPs puts the…