Washington, DC-based advocacy group Copyright Alliance has added audience measurement and data analytics company Nielsen as a new member. The Alliance represents the copyright interests of over two million individual creators and more than 15,000 organisations across the spectrum of copyright disciplines,
“We are thrilled to have Nielsen join us as a member," said Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid. "As a company whose business depends on gathering, analyzing, and licensing media data, l...

The four major performing rights organisations in the United States — ASCAP, BMI, GMR and SESAC — have joined forces to expand Songview into the most comprehensive US public performance copyright data resource.
Initially launched by ASCAP and BMI in December 2020, Songview will incorporate for the first time data from GMR and SESAC, bringing to 38 million the number of musical works licensed by the four major performing rights organisations in the United States. Songview will now offer "the most...

AI-powered research lab SoundPatrol has received the support of Universal Music Group and Sony Music for its project of “forensic AI model for audio-video fingerprinting,” aimed at protecting artists from the unchecked copyright infringement activity coming from AI music generators.
SoundPatrol’s patent-pending fingerprinting model will employ neural embeddings that "capture and analyse musical semantics in order to identify the influence of original human-created music in fully or partly AI-ge...