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...

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 ...