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New remuneration right could solve legal and ethical challenges of generative AI for music creators

12 Sep 2024

Legal analysis white paper, authored by Prof. Daniel Gervais and released by FTMI, now available to download as an eBook 12 September 2024 – Toronto: One of the world’s leading IP law experts has proposed a new right of remuneration…

FTMI Partners submit Generative AI comments to US Copyright Office

07 Dec 2023

North American music creators have submitted comments to the United States Copyright Office regarding its latest discussion on Generative Artificial Intelligence. The comments were made by FTMI partner organizations Music Creators North America (MCNA), the Songwriters Guild of America (SGA)…

Winners of FTMI Awards for outstanding contribution to music creator rights announced in Rio de Janeiro

09 Nov 2023

Cape Verdean songwriter Solange Cesarovna and German composer Jörg Evers are award recipients in 2023 10 November 2023 – Rio de Janeiro: Fair Trade Music International (FTMI) has announced Cape Verdean artist, lyricist and songwriter Solange Cesarovna and the late…

MCNA applauds congressional interest in balancing MLC board of directors

02 Oct 2023

Hundreds of millions in songwriter and composer royalties at stake NEW YORK CITY, OCTOBER 2, 2023: The organizational members of the Music Creators North America (MCNA) alliance, including the Songwriters Guild of America (SGA), the Society of Composers & Lyricists…

NMC Statement on the burning of musical instruments in Afghanistan

06 Aug 2023

Our colleagues at the National Music Council of the United States recently released the following statement. It follows BBC news reports of the Taliban burning musical instruments after claiming music “causes moral corruption”. We believe that the freedom to create…

Independent music creator groups alert US congress to “black box” royalty issue

18 Jul 2023

Fair Trade Music International has joined with MusicAnswers and eight other international music creator groups to alert the US Congress to the hundreds of millions of dollars in the The Mechanical Licensing Collective’s “Black Box”. Most of this was earned…

Fair Trade Music International signs on to Human Artistry Campaign

12 May 2023

Fair Trade Music International has signed on as an official supporter of the Human Artistry Campaign, the international initiative advocating for AI use that empowers and supports human creativity and accomplishment. The campaign lays out seven core principles for artificial…

FTMI endorses comments urging CRB to to reconsider royalty rates for music streaming

07 Dec 2022

Fair Trade Music International has endorsed a submission by the Songwriters Guild of America, Inc., the Society of Composers & Lyricists, Music Creators North America and the individual music creators Rick Carnes and Ashley Irwin to the Copyright Royalty Board…

Musical culture and economics rest on both speech freedoms and copyright protections

19 Nov 2022

New York, November 19, 2022: With the suppression of artistic freedoms on the rise throughout the world, it remains clear that many governments continue to view the longstanding practice of lashing out against music creators to be an especially effective…

Fair Trade Music releases a songwriters’ guide to the MLC unmatched royalties issue

28 Oct 2022

Fair Trade Music International has released an educational video to help music creators understand and address the MLC unmatched royalty issue. In this two-minute animation, we explain how these unclaimed royalties came about and describe what each creator can do…