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Copyright Royalty Board delivers initial determination on the 2018-2022 rates as part of the Phonorecords III proceedings

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The three judges at the Copyright Royalty Board have finally issued their initial written determination following the remand and appeal of the royalty rates setting for the period 2018-2022, known as Phonorecords III proceedings. The Copyright Royalty Judges have upheld the rates determined in 2018, which called for the rates to increase each year from 11.4% to 15.1% over five years. The CRB's decision follows the final determination by the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Au...

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Emmanuel is a Washington, DC-based freelance journalist, blogger and media consultant, specialising in the entertainment business and cultural trends. He was the US editor for British music industry trade publication Music Week. Previously, he was the editor of Impact, a magazine for the music publishing community (2007-2009), the global editor of US trade publication Billboard (2003-2006), and the editor in chief of Billboard’s sister publication Music & Media (1997-2003).

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US Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch urge ByteDance to ‘shut down’ AI video tool Seedance 2.0 — Report

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March 17, 2026

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US Senators Marsha Blackburn and Peter Welch are calling for Chinese company ByteDance to "immediately shut down" its AI-powered video-generation tool Seedance 2.0 and "implement meaningful safeguards to prevent further infringing outputs." The two policy-makers made this request to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo in a letter seen by CNBC. They describe Seedance as "the most glaring example of copyright infringement from a ByteDance product to date" due to its ability to generate videos copying existin...

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British Society of Authors launches the Human Authored scheme to help identify non-AI-generated works

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March 12, 2026

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The UK's Society of Authors (SoA) has launched the Human Authored scheme to help consumers identify works written by humans. The SoA said the initiative is a response to "a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books." The scheme is understood to be the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association "to help protect an entire profession" in an environment dominated by "the absence of any measure by the Government to compel tech companies to label AI-generated outputs," explained the...

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European Parliament adopts AI report on the protection of copyrighted work and the EU’s creative sector in the age of AI

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The European Parliament has adopted on March 10 the own-initiative report on “Copyright and Generative Artificial Intelligence – opportunities and challenges’,” drafted by German MEP Axel Voss, by 460 votes to 71, and 88 abstentions. The report states that to protect the creative sector in the European Union, "the use of copyrighted work by artificial intelligence requires transparency and fair remuneration." In addition, the report calls for rights holders to have the possibility "to prevent th...

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