European performer's organisations and independent labels have joined forces to ask the European Union to "come up urgently" with a legislative solution to address the issue of reciprocity in the payment of performance rights on sound recordings (or neighbouring rights).

The move was triggered by a 2020 decision from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in what is known as the "RAAP case". The CJEU ruled that rights organisations collecting neighbouring rights could not discrimi...

As the European Union is getting close to adopt new legislation on artificial intelligence contained in the AI Act, tech companies and trade organisation representing the tech sector are calling for light regulation in order not to hamper the development of AI in the region.

In an open letter signed by 33 organisation and coordinated by DigitalEurope — whose members include Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft, among other companies — tech companies warned of the negative impact over-...

A coalition of 13 international and European organisations representing writers, translators, performers, composers, songwriters, screen directors, screenwriters, visual artists, journalists, and other creative workers has urged all European policy makers "to prioritise maximum transparency on training data and artificially generated content" in the context of the European Union's AI Act.

The AI Act is entering into the final round of negotiations between the European Commission, Council and...