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[📘 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

📣🗓️Save the date: CISAC will publish its annual Global Collections Report on October 24th! The report is the authoritative global source of data and analysis on creators' royalty collections worldwide. Spanning music, audiovisual, visual arts, drama & literature, it will cover: • 2023 collections data by repertoire, region and income stream • analysis of market trends • priorities for the sector, by CISAC President Björn Ulvaeus, Board Chair Marcelo Castello Branco and DG Gadi Oron. #music #musicnews #audiovisual #literature #visualarts #culture #creativeindustries

🎵 CISAC welcomes the .MUSIC domain intiative, recognising its potential to help protect creators' right by strengthening the digital presence of music creators, ensuring a more transparent ecosystem for creators and consumers alike, and safeguarding against challenges like AI misuse and unauthorised content. 

CISAC member Nordic societies Koda, Stim, Teosto, TONO, and Stef have released a new report showing how CMOs can lead the charge on sustainable development in the music industry. By addressing diversity, equity, and mental health to improving governance and transparency, CMOs have a unique opportunity to influence both social and environmental change. The report outlines a clear strategy for integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance actions into the music industry's core. 🔗 Click on the link to Read the press release and full report.

🎵 🎬 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 🔗

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.