A coalition of organisations representing creators and rights holders have sent an open letter to the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and to Maulen Ashimbayev, Chair of Kazakhstan's Senate, expressing concerns about "weaknesses in the country’s system of collective rights management."
The letter was signed by the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC), the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO), Int...

CISAC has been intensifying its lobbying efforts at the global level, through the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), UNESCO and national governments, "to secure a future where human creativity is protected, valued and rewarded for a fair and sustainable legislative environment."
The increased efforts are related to the development of generative artificial intelligence, and the projected economic and cultural losses resulting from unregulated GenAI. For CISAC, "beyond the financial ...

Australia is joining the cohort of countries with a mandatory content obligation on streaming services. The Labour Government will introduce in Parliament in the coming weeks legislation that will require video streaming with more than one million Australian subscribers to invest at least 10% of their total expenditure for Australia – or 7.5% of their revenue – on new local drama, children’s, documentary, arts and educational programmes.
The figure falls short of the 20% quota requested by Scree...