AI music: Spotify clarifies the rules of the game
Spotify announces a significant update to its artificial intelligence policies, aimed at protecting artists from identity theft and the overproduction of low-quality content, while promoting transparency on the use of AI in music creation. Spotify today announces a substantial update to its artificial intelligence policies. The global streaming giant reminds…
AgoraEU : Independent producers in high alert about Commission proposals
The European Commission's announcement of the "AgoraEU" program is causing serious concern among independent audiovisual producers, who fear that changes to the "MEDIA+" declination will threaten the future of cultural creation in Europe by favoring large broadcasters and blurring funding lines. The European Commission's announcement of its draft "AgoraEU" program,…
AI and copyright: ICMP warns of the « biggest theft in history »!
The International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP) warns of the massive and illegal capture of musical works to train artificial intelligences, calling the practice "the greatest theft of intellectual property in history", and calls for regulations that respect copyright. For the past two years, the International Confederation of Music Publishers…
Really Simple Licencing: the first AI licensing automation protocol
The RSL Collective unveils the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard, a protocol designed to make it easier to pay content creators in the age of artificial intelligence. A laudable idea, but one that won't solve all the problems. In San Francisco, a number of publishers and technology companies voiced their…
Bartz v. Anthropic: historic $1.5 billion settlement
Anthropic will pay at least 1.5 billion dollars for its use of pirated books to train Claude. A major step forward, but major legal questions about AI and copyright remain. The legal soap opera pitting authors and book publishers against the Anthropic company in the United States has just reached…