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ECSA's January news is out! 🔵 ECSA publishes Report on Audiovisual Composers' Contracts 🔵 ECSA at @esns: Creators’ Talks panel and much more 🔵 ECSA and Nordic Film Music Days organise seminar on contracts 🔵 ECSA and @ScreenComposers Guild of Canada host International…

@Creators_ECSA has released a report for audiovisual composers regarding contractual challenges faced, including buyouts, work for hire and waiving moral rights, along with seven recommendations. ciamcreators.org/Newsroom/creat…

Today, ECSA publishes its Report on #Audiovisual Composers' Contracts. Drawing on consultations with our members from across Europe, the report outlines and denounces various harmful and persistent contractual challenges faced by European audiovisual #composers, such as: 🔷…

🚨Coalition of rightholder organisations share serious concerns about the 2nd draft of the GPAI Code of Practice. 🔧Code requires substantial improvements to meet the objectives of the #AIAct. 🧐Read the coalition’s open letter to EVP @HennaVirkkunen 👉tinyurl.com/9s7catse

🚨 10% of tracks uploaded to Deezer every day are fully AI generated, according to new research from Deezer themselves. How much more evidence do you need that generative AI competes with the work it's trained on? 'Fair use' is determined in part by the competitive effect of…

✨FERA is delighted to invite you to the Berlinale conference dedicated to addressing gender inequality in the European film sector, organised in partnership with @EFAD_aisbl 👉Registration is now open: tinyurl.com/tv2r5v4b 👉More details: tinyurl.com/4wp7ujep

Netflix seems to have released a commercial generative AI model trained on copyrighted work without licensing that work. - They've released an AI model, 'Go-With-The-Flow', for controlling motion in AI video - They built it by fine-tuning a base model, CogVideoX - It's likely…

CIAM President @arrienmolema was at Eurosonic. Invited by @Creators_ECSA, Arriën participated in a panel on streaming with Helienne Lindvall, @IMPForum's Nicole Schulze & @Deezer's Indre Boaretto. He moderated a panel on AI & creativity, how creators can use it & its challenges.

AI, music and licensing: 'Opt-out is an illusion. It doesn't work...' musically.com/2025/01/20/ai-… via @MusicAlly

What’s needed to improve the working conditions of artists and cultural workers, and what can be done on a political level in the coming years?   ECSA Board Member Aafke Romeijn, ECSA Secretary General Marc du Moulin, Erica Romero (@LiveDMA), Iryna Lobanok (Ukrainian Institute)…

Reaching the final panels of the day @esns: ECSA President @Helienne Lindvall, Olga Heijns (Next Era Publishing), @MandySalemAubry (Mandy Salem-Aubry Music Services), Gee Davy (AIM) and Margriet Koedooder (De Vos & Partners Advocaten) discuss the Voluntary Code of Good Practice…

How can we make sure that #streaming remuneration will actually reflect the value of the song? ECSA President @Helienne Lindvall, Arriën Molema (@CIAMCreators, @BAM_Network) Indrė Boaretto (@Deezer) and Nicole Schulze (@IMPForum) dive into the world of songwriter royalties…

This is a good example of why generative AI opt-outs don't work. This author's book has been stolen and mashed up into an unlicensed AI version. AI companies that scrape the internet for training data will ingest the stolen version and train on it. How could the original author…

La XII edición de los Premios @DiasDeCine se celebró ayer, 15 de enero, en el @museoreinasofia de Madrid y contó con la asistencia de los galardonados, artistas e invitados destacados del mundo de la cultura.

We’re at @esns! ECSA President @helienne Lindvall just kicked off the Thursday with Hannah Kahlert @midiaresearch, Quentin Lambert @Deezer and Lynn Tissink @believe discussing the recent twofold development in music consumption that differentiates between “lean-back” and…

Survey: Viewers Want AI Content Labeled "Two-thirds of respondents said that any content made with AI should be 'clearly and obviously labeled'" tvtechnology.com/news/hub-surve…

Congratulations to SCGI members nominated in this years @IFTA awards: @Die_Hexen - Fréwaka, @DavidHolmes and Brian Irvine - The Apprentice @lynchsc - The Dry @eimearnoone and @csgarfinkle - The Magic Reindeer and @RHMusik - Song Cycle. @IMROireland @ScreenIreland

It is nonsensical to allow one part of industry bypass laws that others have to work within including copyright. Because you work with a type of technology should not allow for a company to behave differently towards other industries or individuals than others do.