CISAC

[📘 CISAC’s 2024 Annual Report]   The CISAC Annual Report, published today, highlights CISAC’s key priorities, led by its legislative advocacy for creators rights at a pivotal moment in the age of Artificial Intelligence.   ✨ Highlights of the Annual report include: ◾ The successful takeover by CISAC of the CIS-Net tools that underpin inter-society data exchanges. ◾ Increase in the adoption of the ISWC.  ◾ Setting the legal framework for creators in the AI environment. ◾ Working for growth and strong copyright frameworks at national level.  ◾ Several key interventions by CISAC’s President and Vice-Presidents at centres of international influence such as World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO, UNESCO and regional agencies, to promote and safeguard creators’ rights ◾ International campaigns on the Resale Right for visual artists and for an unwaivable right of remuneration for audiovisual creators.   🔗 Read the press release for more information: https://lnkd.in/gpp-WF7r   #CISACAnnualReport2024 #CISACGeneralAssembly2024 #CISACinKorea2024

The creative industries and academics need to work together to properly understand and prepare for the spread of AI in the creative sector. 🎤 CISAC’s Director of Legal and Policy Constance Herreman Follain joined leading academics and legal practitioners to discuss the impact of Generative AI at Queen Mary University of London's “International Conference on AI and Intellectual Property Law”. She gave an overview of Generative AI services available, their impact on creators and authors societies, and the evolving approaches CISAC’s members are taking towards licensing AI in the future.

Last week I had the great honour of delivering the 2024 Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture at UCL, on the intersection between Artificial Intelligence and collective management of rights. I reviewed different AI tools and explained how the creative industries react to this new technology, and what are the main challenges faced by Collective Management Organisations in licensing AI platforms. The legal regulation around AI is evolving and different jurisdictions adopt different approaches to key issues such as transparency and disclosure obligations, exceptions for Text and Data Mining and opt-outs by rightsholders, making it even more difficult to navigate this landscape. I descirbed the actions taken by CISAC authors societies so far, and the questions around the legal status of works created by AI and the ability to collectively manage them. It was also an oppurtunity to share my own views about where the industry is going and how rights management entities can adjust to the new market reality. While changes are no doubt on the horizon, the benefits of licensing AI collectively and the economies of scale inherent in the collective management system make it the best place to address AI. Authors socieites will naturally need to adjust, but they have done so succesfully in the past with the inventions of broadcasting, recording, home taping and most recently, digitization and interactive online use. AI is huge and will transform our lives, but when it comes to creators' rights and royalties, it's no different from previous technologcial revolutions that challenged existing remuneration models. Our key goal has always been - and will remain - ensuring that human creators can make a living from their art and continue contributing to our culture. This will be achieved by a combination of effective legal rights, transparency obligations for AI, accountability and respect for creators' rights and interests. Many thanks to the many friends and colleagues who turned up and to the large audience who joined at the lecture hall and online. If you've missed it and would like to catch up, the recording is here:

What is the future of authors' societies and the collective management of rights in the age of AI? CISAC Director General Gadi Oron was invited to address this highly topical subject at the 2024 Sir Hugh Laddie Lecture at University College London. AI is challenging the rights management world with unprecedented questions, such as how to define authorship, how much human intervention is required for a work to be protected by copyright, and how to license AI-generated works to the benefit of creators.   Faced with these questions, Oron argues that the key values of the collective management system will be just as important, if not more so, in the AI environment than in the past. The top priority for rights holders now is to secure transparency obligations from AI operators so that creators are properly protected and fairly remunerated.     A recording of the lecture “Artificial Intelligence and Collective Rights Management: the Future or the End?” will be made available soon.

CISAC member SGAE announced their 2023 results of €349.1 million distributed, exceeding revenues and an increase of 11.9% compared to 2022.

Generative AI, improving the mental health and wellbeing of music creators, and increasing collaboration brought the CEOs and Chairs of authors' rights societies from around the world to a very special joint session with the International Council of Music Creators (CIAM) in Seoul, Korea. #musicindustry #musicnews #musicbusiness #generativeai

✨ CISAC’s 2024 General Assembly drew more than 75 member societies to Seoul, with leading creators and policy makers joining a meeting that was inspired by the creative success story of Korea and dominated by the biggest issue of our times - artificial intelligence. 🔗 Click on the link to read the wrap-up report on the whole event. #CISACGA2024

📢 The global CISAC community calls for streaming royalties in Poland. Authors' societies from around the world, grouped within CISAC, have come together to back the campaign in Poland for audiovisual creators to be legally entitled to royalties for their work.    🎬 Screenwriters and directors are central to the success of films and TV series, and many countries grant them a fair right of remuneration guaranteeing payment for online uses of their works. However, Poland does not have such a right.   At the CISAC General Assembly in Seoul, a resolution supporting the campaign by Poland’s AV society ZAPA was adopted on behalf of CMOs in 116 countries. The Resolution calls for Poland to provide proper protection and introduce an unwaivable remuneration right for audiovisual creators. #CISACGA2024

🗣️ "Culture is power. Art is not only about our identity, pride or prestige. It attracts investment. It generates economic value. And it gives influence." CISAC Director General Gadi Oron's keynote speech at the 2024 CISAC General Assembly examined what is at stake with the impact of AI on creators. 🔗 Read the full speech: https://lnkd.in/g-CeGAps #CISACGA2024 #artificialintelligence #musicbusiness #musicindustry #creativeindustries #musicnews #ainews #generativeai

🗣️"There is nothing more important now than addressing [artificial intelligence] as a global community, and I truly believe that together, we are in a better position to weather any storm ahead," CISAC Board Chair Marcelo Castello Branco talks technology and adapting in his 2024 General Assembly speech. 🔗 Read the full speech: https://lnkd.in/g-_sEYQJ #CISACGA2024 #artificialintelligence #musicbusiness #musicindustry #creativeindustries #musicnews #ainews #generativeai