Representing composers & songwriters, we defend and promote the rights of music authors on national, EU, and international level. Co-funded by @europe_creative.
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4 Feb 2025
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4 Feb 2025
From today, ECSA is no longer active on X. Stay connected and find us on:
📍 Bluesky: bit.ly/4jBEuPj
📍 LinkedIn: bit.ly/410ixlD
📍 Instagram: bit.ly/410vMme
📍 Facebook: bit.ly/3Q0VwZB
📍 Newsletter: bit.ly/4jFZZOT
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4 Feb 2025
Next to the fact that we see a clear decrease in reach on X, the platform's recent developments and its current management do not align with what we stand for as an organisation.
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31 Jan 2025
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 Dialogue on #AI in Berlin
🔵Afro Film Music Days, latest news on #AI, and much more!
➡️ Read: bit.ly/4goImjH
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ECSA retweeted
30 Jan 2025
@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/cr…
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28 Jan 2025
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:
🔷 #Buyout contracts and work made for hire provisions
🔷 Pseudo-publishing
🔷 The waiving of moral rights
The report also provides 7️⃣ key recommendations to tackle these harmful practices.
📢 We call on policy makers and the audiovisual industry to renew their efforts to tackle buyout contracts and other harmful practices in composers’ contracts, so that composers can truly benefit from appropriate and proportionate remuneration for the exploitation of their works.
🔗 Full report: bit.ly/3WDiAkB
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ECSA retweeted
27 Jan 2025
🚨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
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ECSA retweeted
24 Jan 2025
🚨 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 the use.
This is not fair use.
newsroom-deezer.com/2025/01/…
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23 Jan 2025
✨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
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ECSA retweeted
22 Jan 2025
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 CogVideoX was trained on ©️ videos without a license. The dataset is not public, but the paper variously describes it as "video... available online" and 35 million "relatively high-quality video clips", plus images from LAION-5B (known to contain ©️ images).
- Netflix released this model under a license that allows commercial use
Curious what Netflix's position is on the importance of licensing.
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21 Jan 2025
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.
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17 Jan 2025
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) and Li Sang Ong (VNPF) discuss at @esns.
📃 ECSA’s #Manifesto also proposes concrete actions to improve music creators’ working conditions: ➡️ bit.ly/4hjGl98
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17 Jan 2025
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 on Transparency in Music Streaming, launched last summer in the UK. 🇬🇧 What issues will it solve and will it be adopted by organisations outside the UK?
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17 Jan 2025
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 during ECSA's Creators' Talks panel at ESNS.
📃 Read more on ECSA’s concrete proposals to #FixStreaming in our Manifesto: bit.ly/4hjGl98
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ECSA retweeted
16 Jan 2025
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 possibly opt out the stolen version?
h/t @neilturkewitz
16 Jan 2025
yo what the fuck?? i'm furious for this author.
ALT an author on threads (jordan lynde) found their book remade and reproduced with ai, cover, narrator, text and all
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ECSA retweeted
16 Jan 2025
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.
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16 Jan 2025
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 “active” listening. How to adapt the #MusicStreaming ecosystem to this shift?
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ECSA retweeted
15 Jan 2025
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-su…
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ECSA retweeted
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
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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.
15 Jan 2025
I wrote in the Guardian today about @UKLabour’s AI Opportunities Action Plan, which proposes handing AI companies the life’s work of Britain’s creators for free.
The government must reconsider. We can be a leader in AI without throwing the creative industries under the bus.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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The @esns is one of my favourite events of the year, and I really look forward to discussing the @midiaresearch report on the Bifurcation Theory, the latest UK music industry transparency code, as well as how to #FixStreaming and #PaySongwriters.
13 Jan 2025
Attending @esns this week?
Next to our own #CreatorsTalks panel on music streaming, ECSA participates in various other panels. Make sure to check out the following discussions:
🟢 Thursday, 10:30: "Bifurcation Theory: Today's Music Industry Is Becoming Two"
Two distinct consumer ecosystems emerge in the music industry: one shaped by 'lean back' and background listening, and one in which consumers actively participate and engage. ECSA President @Helienne Lindvall, Hanna Kahlert (@midiaresearch) and various other key voices discuss the ins and outs.
➡️ bit.ly/3DR1d9B
🟢 Friday, 13:30: ECSA Creators' Talks panel: "Streaming's Broken Record: Where Are My Royalties?"
ECSA President Helienne Lindvall, Arriën Molema (BAM! Popauteurs), Indrė Boaretto (@Deezer) and Nicole Schulze (@IMPForum) dive into the world of songwriter royalties: how can we make sure that songwriters, who are at the very heart of music creation, get their fair share?
➡️ bit.ly/4h8lEgp
🟢 Friday, 13:30: "How Creative Europe’s Music Networks and Platforms are Shaping the Future of a Diverse and Competitive European Music Ecosystem"
How can EU-supported networks continue to foster collaboration, drive innovation, and create fair opportunities for artists and professionals? Various leading voices from across the music ecosystem, including ECSA Secretary General Marc du Moulin, will share insights and actionable solutions during this panel hosted by the @EU_Commission.
➡️ bit.ly/4jd30pq
🟢 Friday, 16:30: "Artists and Cultural Workers Of The World, Unite!"
ECSA Board Member Aafke Romeijn, ECSA Secretary General Marc du Moulin, Erica Romero (@LiveDMA), Iryna Lobanok (Ukrainian Institute) and Li Sang Ong (VNPF) discuss what’s needed to improve the conditions of artists and cultural workers, where we stand and what can realistically be done in the coming years.
➡️ bit.ly/4fMc9m4
🟢 Friday, 16:30: "I Can See Clearly Now"
ECSA President Helienne Lindvall, Olga Heijns (Next Era Publishing), Mandy Salem-Aubry (Mandy Salem-Aubry Music Services), Gee Davy (AIM) and Margriet Koedooder (De Vos & Partners Advocaten) discuss the Voluntary Code of Good Practice on Transparency in Music Streaming, launched last summer in the UK. What issues will it solve and will it be adopted by organisations outside the UK?
➡️ bit.ly/4ae72Kd
🟢 Saturday, 11:30: Labels Hebben Artiesten Nodig, Niet Andersom (NL spoken)
What is the relevance of the role of labels in today's digital music landscape? ECSA Board Member Aafke Romeijn, Eef van der Vliet (Pollination Music), Stephanie McGuire (McGuire Banks and Sony Music), and Pieter Kleinhout (97PM) dive right into it.
➡️ bit.ly/4gO3YqP
See you in Groningen!
📷 Bart Heemskerk
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