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 cross-sector project to harmonise cue sheets for the use of music in audiovisual productions has been upgraded to include recording metadata for the first time. This is an extension of work started in 2020 to harmonise music cue sheets and will make it easier for all parties to identify musical works, sound recordings and to process payments to creators and rights holders. The project has been implemented in a collaboration between CISAC, representing authors societies worldwide, music publishers, Film and TV studios, and producers through the Society Publisher Forum, and, for the first time, IFPI representing the international recording industry. 🔗 Read the press release via the link below.

In the largest study of its kind in the region, APRA AMCOS has unveiled the results of its exhaustive report into AI in the music sector – AI and Music – revealing the technology’s potentially devastating impact on Australian and New Zealand music creators. By 2028, 23% of music creators’ revenues will be at risk due to generative AI, an estimated cumulative total damage of half a billion (AUD$519m). #AIMusic #CreativeIndustries #MusicRights #ArtificialIntelligence #AustralianCreators #MusicIndustry #CopyrightProtection

CISAC has today joined forces with European and international creators’ rights organisations to express concern over the recent cut in private copying compensation in Finland - from 11 million euros to 5.5 million euros. A joint statement addressed to the Finnish government, says the decision is unjustifiable and would have severely harmful consequences for authors and the whole creative ecosystem in Finland. The letter, signed by CISAC along with Collecting Societies for European Visual Artists , IFRRO , GESAC - authorsocieties.eu and Society of Audiovisual Authors, says the cut would immediately reduce compensation to authors by 50%, and remove funding support to the creation of new works and cultural events and organisations in Finland. The statement calls on the Finnish government to: ☑ Ensure that the level of private copying revenue is maintained at least at 11 million euros in order to safeguard the ability of authors to earn a living from their art and to ensure Finland’s legal responsibility to achieve a fair compensation scheme as required by the European Union Court of Justice (CJEU). ☑ Update the private copying system to meet the standards set by the CJEU and to accurately reflect the actual number of copies being made and their extensive use, particularly in the digital environment, to ensure a sustainable and fair level of compensation. Read the full statement via the link below 🔗

Third time lucky! We loudly announce the 3rd edition of the International Composers’ Competition, organized jointly by the Society of Authors ZAiKS and the Szczecin Philharmonic. How to join the club of fortunate winners? 🎶 compose work for a symphony orchestra, with a duration time of 9 to 12 minutes 🎶 check helpful information at https://lnkd.in/ga6eJDpb 🎶 fill in entry form and send it by the 31st August 2024 The Competition prize pool is 40 000 euro.

CISAC has released its latest newsletter from the Latin America and Caribbean regional office, offering an account of recent activities and strategic priorities for its members in the region. The newsletter updates on the region’s work on AI and technology and provides an overview of recent developments in copyright legislation across the region. 🔗 Click on the link to download the Newsletter in English and Spanish

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.