The British Equity Collecting Society (BECS) has formally exercised an opt-out from the EU Article 4 text and data mining (TDM) exception on behalf of its members. In practice, it means that the use of BECS members’ audiovisual performances for TDM to train Generative AI models is only permitted with express prior authorisation. BECS' decision follows a vote at the organisation's recent Annual General Meeting in November 2025, through which members overwhelmingly granted the BECS "a clear mandat...

British neighbouring rights society PPL has entered in a partnership with music technology company Salt to implement Salt Match to match music usage data to recordings in PPL’s Repertoire Database. PPL said matching usage data is "the foundation on which PPL calculates royalties due to performers and recording rights holders." The London-based society receives on average data about 45,000 new recordings each week, which requires a platform that "can scale quickly" the volume of data that needs ...

Brussels-based organisation European Visual Artists (EVA) has promoted Susanna Brozzu to the position of EU Public Affairs and Communications Manager. EVA represents the interests of authors’ collective management organisations for the visual arts and regroups 31 societies as members or observers Brozzu joined EVA as Communication Officer in Feb 2022. "Throughout her time with us, Susanna has demonstrated strong commitment and a deep understanding of European cultural policy and advocacy. We’re ...