Social Media Ideas for Artist Rights

One Voice, One Law: Artists Need a Federal Voice Right, Not a State-by-State Patchwork

I have spent my career around artists: booking them, interviewing them, publishing their stories and watching how this business treats the people who make it run. Right now the mos...

Liza Diño echoes IPOPHL’s reminder to concertgoers: Respect artists, producers

Fire and Ice Entertainment CEO Liza Diño-Seguerra reiterated her stance on recording concerts following a reminder from the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL)...

Salsa Composer Says He Kept Rights To 6 Albums

A Venezuelan salsa composer suing his former business partner and producer for copyright infringement told jurors Monday that he never transferred ownership rights to six albums th...

Jason Isbell, Activist Artist David Lowery, and Others Fire Off Suno Class Action Alleging Likeness and Identity Rights...

We’ve been hearing plenty about Suno’s allegedly infringing training process and outputs. But what about its alleged publicity and likeness rights violations? Now, the platform is...

Riddims against copyright

Dancehall’s interactive, collaborative nature doesn’t treat a work as isolated or even something that is “finished.” Iteration is a part of the creative process that is decided by...

Indie publishers set out seven principles for AI licensing: ‘The song must be properly valued.’

The two organizations are now calling on collective management organizations (CMOs) and other licensors to support the principles. Source

Arooj Aftab calls for fair pay when artists' music is used to train AI

Grammy winner backs calls for clear labelling of AI-generated music and compensation when AI systems use artists' work

‘Human Made, Human Paid’: The Largest U.S. Musicians Union Is Demanding AI Protections

American Federation of Musicians asking major labels to give artists a contract with AI protections and compensation 

Must Read Issues Statement on Cover Illustration Contracts

Must Read Magazines has issued a statement shared by Analog Science Fiction and Fact on Bluesky in response to public criticism by John Picacio, Donato Giancola, Victoria Strauss,...

Who Owns AI-Generated Images, Videos, Music, and Articles?

Who owns AI-generated content? There is no universal answer. An AI tool’s terms may let you use an image, song, video or article, but that does not automatically give you copyright...

You Wrote the Music. Who Gets the Value? A Special Interview With One of the Most Influential Figures In Music Publishin...

You can spend three weeks getting a melody right and three minutes clicking through the music publishing agreement that determines who gets paid for it. That imbalance should bothe...

House Bill Looks To Ease Copyright Process For Visual Artists

Visual artists like photographers would have a more streamlined and cheaper copyright registration process under a bill that has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representative...

Can We Sue Our Way to AI Control?

The labels want their power back. Copyright needs to be rebuilt. There is a comforting version of the AI music story in which the record labels sue, the technology companies pay, a...

Roblox Escapes Artist's AI Copyright Claims, For Now

A California federal judge has allowed Roblox Corp. to duck claims from a 3D artist that his work had its copyright management information removed when it was used to train artific...

Elephant In the Room Reminder: Major Hits from Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave Already Used to Train AI Without Compensation...

The global trade body ICMP warns that AI training may lead to the dilution of Australian copyright laws, effectively “legitimizing larceny.” The International Confederation of Musi...

The Swift-Kelce Songwriting Problem: Who Owns the Story and Who Owns the Money

Digital Privacy for Artists

By Thea Rodgers. This skills session enables participants to take immediate actions and understand the larger commitments and investments artists can make to ensure digital privacy...

TCRC v. Ganga Rudraiah: Copyright, Acquiescence, and the Cost of an Unwritten Arrangement

The Madras High Court’s decision in TCRC v. Ganga Rudraiah may appear to be about the ownership of BTS photographs from the making of the hit film ‘Aval Appadithan‘. But the reason...

Believe and TuneCore won’t feed music to Suno without giving artists choice to opt in: ‘The artist must consent first, p...

Denis Ladegaillerie details two-stage opt-in process for artists who want (and don't want) to have their music provided to Suno Source

At least one music apocalypse has been averted. Here’s what you need to know.

Copyright is one of the oldest laws still in use. The rules regarding the “right to copy” intellectual property were first protected by Great Britain’s Statute of Anne in 1710. The...

Originality Without Authorship: Analysing the Copyright Office’s Decision in Thaler

In light of the Copyright Office’s refusal to register Dr. Stephen Thaler’s AI-generated artwork, holding that DABUS cannot be recognised as its author, Vikram Raj Nanda and Sumukh...

3 Count: Nitter Picking

X shutters Nitter with legal threat, photographer sues Elizabeth Peyton over Oasis painting and FlavaWorks files RICO case against alleged pirates. Source

Copyright Ruling Leaves Worldwide Rights In Legal Limbo

The U.S. Supreme Court left music publishers, creators and catalog buyers facing potentially different rules for worldwide copyright termination after an unusual quorum failure end...

This weird legal case could change how we think of copyright forever

It could have profound effects on our creative work