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All Eyes On AI At Global Collecting Societies’ Annual Meeting

The general assembly of CISAC, the trade organization of collecting societies, was full of talk about AI and how it could help and hurt creators.

The annual general assembly of CISAC, the trade organization of collecting societies, was full of talk about new technology — and how it could help creators, as well as hurt them. To CISAC, the technology presents a series of interlocking problems: How to license it legally, which is the same issue other rightsholders face now that the major labels are talking to Suno and Udio. More likely, European societies will find themselves at odds with publishers over who can license mechanical rights to copy songs for the purposes of training generative AI algorithms.

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