ECSA

Representing composers & songwriters, we defend and promote the rights of music authors on national, EU, and international level. Co-funded by @europe_creative.

[ECSA @Creators_ECSA]

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[ECSA @Creators_ECSA]

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.

[ECSA @Creators_ECSA]

From today, ECSA is no longer active on X. Stay connected and find us on:

📍 Bluesky: https://t.co/Yj3jil7aPH
📍 LinkedIn: https://t.co/kvzS2LGo6V
📍 Instagram: https://t.co/1rbRV5zN72
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[ECSA @Creators_ECSA]

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: https://t.co/zdRahNMFQ3

[CIAM @CIAMCreators]

@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.
https://t.co/fq779AGHlQ

[ECSA @Creators_ECSA]

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: https://t.co/YhydLMMD6L

[IMPALA @IMPALAMusic]

🚨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 👉https://t.co/7PQgZPV5nL

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

🚨 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.

https://t.co/zJpf0AdsZ9

[FERA @Film_directors]

✨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: https://t.co/cD1tgiDbNu
👉More details: https://t.co/JxxZJ3HO1p

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

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.

[CIAM @CIAMCreators]

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.

[ECSA @Creators_ECSA]

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: ➡️ https://t.co/h9mIsfWjf9

[ECSA @Creators_ECSA]

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?

[ECSA @Creators_ECSA]

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: https://t.co/h9mIsfVLpB

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

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

[Musimagen @MusimagenAV]

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.

[ECSA @Creators_ECSA]

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?

[Human Artistry Campaign @human_artistry]

Survey: Viewers Want AI Content Labeled
"Two-thirds of respondents said that any content made with AI should be 'clearly and obviously labeled'"
https://t.co/aUgOF9eDAl

[Screen Composers Guild of Ireland @screencomposer2]

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

[Screen Composers Guild of Ireland @screencomposer2]

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.

[helienne @helienne]

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.