IMPALA

Levelling the playing field for independent music companies and their artists across Europe.

[IMPALA @IMPALAMusic]

🚨IMPALA publishes One billion subscribers and counting – a moment for ambition, experimentation and collaboration
Setting out 5 priorities to shape the next phase of the digital music market (see infographic)
📄 Statement: https://t.co/WCWwBNaExZ
📘 Plan: https://t.co/bWK8ufzpKB

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☀️ Quiet moment this Summer? Have a look at IMPALA’s EDI toolkit for the independent music sector!

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Sector survey: https://t.co/OslMN1r15v
Online training platform: https://t.co/uGSjbjZzzY

[IMPALA @IMPALAMusic]

Join this Music Climate Pact webinar on 9 September.

IMPALA is an MCP supporting organisation and all members can attend.

New rules on sustainability claims will apply from September 27

🔗 Register here: https://t.co/GpxIwKrLka

[IMPALA @IMPALAMusic]

We see this as a moment for opportunity and collaboration to review overall functioning and ensure an inclusive, diverse and dynamic market.

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🤖 Earlier this month IMPALA’s digital music plan recommended excluding materially AI generated content from algorithms and royalty pools, with tracks generated by unlicensed tools not uploaded in the first place. Read our Digital Music Plan: https://t.co/1ZiQoNRHc9

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Stopping dilution gives genuine artists the space to create and the freedom to using AI tools to enhance their music if they wish. An optimal market prioritises human artistry and diversity in all its forms and, as with digital.

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Read Dan Fowler’s ecosystem report: https://t.co/NQVzgGJFbu

IMPALA's Industrial Policy for Culture action plan:
https://t.co/Oy5UhPMOfG

[IMPALA @IMPALAMusic]

Great to see @MusicWeek published an op-ed by @AIM_UK CEO Gee Davy this week, welcoming new UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham & urging the government to do more to support the independent music sector.

Great illustration of #WhyIndependentsMatter
Op-ed here: https://t.co/vpKY4Lwh8U

[IMPALA @IMPALAMusic]

Gee highlights how France’s tax credit model can support businesses investing in new talent. The issues raised reflect priorities in Dan Fowler’s ecosystem report & IMPALA’s Industrial Policy for Culture plan to support independent cultural businesses to grow/invest across Europe

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These resources give an overview of the situation in different regions globally, as well as their AI Toolkit on Copyright Exceptions, designed to help associations respond to proposals that would weaken copyright protection or introduce new copyright exceptions for AI training.

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Need more help on AI?

Following IMPALA’s Digital Music Plan, which has two chapters dealing with AI, our advice on rights reservation, and a recent note on what to look out for in terms of signing contracts.

IMPALA's Digital Music Plan 👉 https://t.co/85TaQ0HnzE

[IMPALA @IMPALAMusic]

Check out @winformusic's resources for members on copyright exceptions, which have been updated.

More info 👉 https://t.co/Lean9OJZtv

[AIM @AIM_UK]

In a new piece for Music Week this morning, AIM CEO Gee Davy AIM CEO welcomes new PM Andy Burnham to the role with a call to back the independent music sector: https://t.co/Qq6r5bKfhj

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it.

Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more

[IMPALA @IMPALAMusic]

🌍Artist & label groups from different EU markets support EC action to increase rights protection globally

👉proportionate rules to confirm reciprocity & accommodate different systems
👉encourage trading partners to introduce full set of rights

Statement https://t.co/8zRAzpuwGH

[IFPI @IFPI_org]

Today IFPI with @RIAA, @a2im, @winformusic, @IMPALAMusic, @GrammyAwardsRS, @sagaftra & @human_artistry have announced a unified approach to voluntary track labeling to give fans clearer information about the use of generative AI (GenAI) in sound recordings https://t.co/e0NBWni738

[UPFI @UPFI_syndicat]

Les organisations internationales de la musique, dont @winformusic et @IMPALAMusic, s'associent pour proposer un étiquetage standard des contenus, qu'ils soient entièrement (AI) ou partiellement (ai) générés par IA
Communiqué ▶️ https://t.co/b0Lju97lff

[Music Week @MusicWeek]

Music community launches unified approach on track labelling for generative AI as industry standard https://t.co/WcaLfjNtss

[IMPALA @IMPALAMusic]

As set out in IMPALA’s Digital Music Plan, clear definitions and industry-wide AI labelling are crucial for the independent sector — an important first step towards a provenance system the whole industry can embrace as a quality mark.✅
Digital Music Plan👉https://t.co/bWK8ufzpKB

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🚨 Music organisations, including IMPALA, IFPI, RIAA, A2IM, WIN, The Grammys, SAG-AFTRA and the Human Artistry Campaign, have introduced a voluntary labelling programme to bring greater transparency to the use of GenAI in sound recordings.

Statement 👉 https://t.co/1O1sdrSPLE