President Donald Trump has confirmed his plans of “imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies that are made outside the US,” sending a shock message to Hollywood and the global film industry.
“Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America, by other Countries, just like stealing candy from a baby,” wrote Trump on Truth Social, using the same rhetoric as last My when he first floated the idea of imposing taxes of films entering the US or filmed outside of the US.
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A coalition of 21 organisations from across Europe’s music sector — representing authors, composers, performers, managers, labels, music publishers, collecting societies and live — have called for "a comprehensive policy strategy and an ambitious budget" for Europe’s music sector within AgoraEU, the new programme proposed by the European Commission.
AgoraEU will regroup three strands: Creative Europe – Culture; MEDIA+ for audiovisual and news media; and Democracy, Citizens, Equality, Rights and ...

The UK's Musician Union will put forward at the Labour Party Conference (Sept. 28-Oct; 1) a motion calling for Copyright Reform, as the organisation believes "now is a historic chance to fix copyright law and protect musicians from the impact of AI and streaming."
The motion is designed to ensure that music streaming and artificial intelligence "don’t make it impossible to earn a living as a musician," and will address the forthcoming Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill, calling on Parliam...