A group of 18 British songwriters, including Elton John, Paul McCartney and Thom Yorke, have questioned the administrative rates claimed by rights society PRS for Music, according to a Bloomberg report.
These songwriters added their names to a letter sent last week to PRS for Music asking the London-based performance rights society to explain how its administrative expenses are accounted for.
“This request is prompted by growing concerns about the transparency, accuracy and overall representati...

Two recent studies commissioned by rights ognisations — Spain's SGAE and Denmark's KODA (in partnership with IFPI Denmark) — have reached similar conclusions: creators and their societies face significant potential losses as AI-generated content proliferates on music streaming services. Both rights societies call on policy-makers to adopt regulatory mechanisms to safeguard human creation versus content fully generated by AI.
The two reports are localised follow-ups from the 2024 global report on...

Laetitia Nguala Masamba has been appointed as the new Secretary General of European Visual Artists (EVA), the groupment of 31 collecting societies for visual artists, following her unanimous endorsement by the EVA General Assembly. She replaces Carola Streul who was in the job since 1997 and who is retiring from the Brussels-based organisation.
Masamba joined EVA in 2019 as Administrative Assistant, and was promoted to Business Process Manager in 2020. Prior to that, she worked for several years...