Matteo Fedeli, the CEO of SIAE, has disclosed that the Italian rights society has collected over €1 billion in 2025, a record for the Rome-based collective management organisation. Over €849m was distributed to authors and publishers, compared to €740m the previous year. In 2022, SIAE collected €792m. Over the past year, SIAE renewed agreements with Meta, Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, Google, and Netflix. These deals do not simply cover the value of licenses, but also include provisions on data tra...

French rights society SACEM has signed of a "landmark representation agreement" with EMRA, the first ever Collective Management Organisation (CMO) in the United Arab Emirates. Details of the agreement have not been disclosed. "This collaboration with SACEM represents a major step forward in aligning the UAE's creative sector with global standards. It reinforces our role as a collective management organization committed to strengthening creators' rights and positioning the UAE as a leading cultur...

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...