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Spotify is transforming AI into a discreet but omnipresent infrastructure, personalizing discovery, organizing content circulation, and optimizing monetization, positioning itself as a true algorithmic cultural orchestrator rather than…

While US case law on fair use as applied to generative AI remains fragmented and contradictory, rights holders are shifting the focus of litigation. By focusing on piracy,…

Sacem has announced a reduction in its commission on digital rights to 7% from 2026, coupled with a reduction in distribution times. This change, based on technological investments,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Universal Music Group announces a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to deploy Music Flamingo, a « responsible » music AI trained on NVIDIA’s infrastructure and UMG’s vast catalog, aiming…

To close the year, ElectronLibre publishes without retouch a demonstration of the capabilities of its AI tool – EL Compagnon – to synthesize and anticipate the major legislative,…

French authors, publishers, producers and collecting societies are showing their support for the proposed law aimed at establishing a presumption of exploitation of cultural content by AI systems.…

Between targeted acquisitions of heritage catalogs (Lusafrica, Africa Nostra) and equity stakes/partnerships with independent labels (Duchess, Avalon), Sony Music France is deploying a hybrid strategy aimed at internationalizing…

The proposed acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery by Netflix, which would offer a premium catalog (HBO, Warner, DC, CNN) and significant commercial synergies, is reshaping the entertainment landscape…

Information is not an industrial product. Pluralism cannot be certified. And a private benchmark, which has absolutely nothing to do with an ISO standard, should never be used…

For Wrapped 2025 in France, Spotify offers a more intimate retrospective -illustrated by an exclusive encounter with Gims – and reveals a listening landscape where rap dominates, French-speaking…

While Emmanuel Macron is talking about the subject, the European Commission is quietly building a « hybrid ecosystem » – technical standards (C2PA), editorial guidelines (JTI), fact-checking networks…

In the wake of the failed dialogue between rights holders and AI developers, three senators are preparing an explosive proposal: introducing a presumption that copyrighted works were used…

By adopting the Convention on the co-production of series, the Council of Europe has endorsed an ambitious definition of independent production, against the will of the European Commission.…

This coming Thursday, an exceptional parliamentary commission will grill the heads and anchors of public broadcasting, revealing an institutional, financial and editorial tug-of-war between France Télévisions and the…

As the European Parliament finalizes the Voss report and the Commission prepares a review of the 2019 copyright directive, the Danish presidency delivers a long-awaited summary on generative…

Thirty years after Article 151 was written into the EU Treaty, enjoining the institutions to take cultural dimensions into account in all their policies, Brussels is finally getting…

The Centre National de la Musique’s 2024 report reveals a predominance of pop and urban music in French musical production, highlighting the growing strength of the french-speaking repertoire…

The European Commission, with its Democracy Shield, announces the reopening of the 2019 Copyright Directive. The Democracy Shield unveiled yesterday by the European Commission marks an unexpected turning…

The Munich court has ruled in favor of GEMA against OpenAI, finding that ChatGPT had reproduced protected song lyrics without authorization. This is a historic turning point, which…

CISAC reveals in its World Report 2025 that creators’ revenues reached 13.97 billion euros in 2024, thanks to notable growth in digital collections, and highlights growing concerns over…

The UK High Court has ruled in favor of Stability AI in the Getty Images case, holding that the Stable Diffusion artificial intelligence model does not constitute «…

The attempt at conciliation sought by Rachida Dati between representatives of culture and tech giants on the issue of copyright in the age of AI has failed, prompting…

Koda, the Danish copyright management company, is filing suit against US platform Suno for illegally using works by Danish artists in the training of its music AI models.…

Discussions on Axel Voss’ report on artificial intelligence and copyright continue to divide the European Parliament. Beyond the fundamental disagreements, it is now the internal political mechanics of…

Universal Music Group is teaming up with artificial intelligence Udio to develop a music creation platform, but French artists are calling out the need for a framework to…

Grokipedia, launched by Elon Musk, aims to revolutionize access to knowledge thanks to artificial intelligence that generates and updates content in real time, challenging Wikipedia’s collaborative and sometimes…