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Guest article: “Perhaps you don’t need to go viral to go direct?”

30 Jun 2025

Ethical business models for music creators All over the world today, music creators are finding it increasingly difficult to earn an equitable livelihood from the use of their work. Whilst the cost of living continues to rise, the value of…

Portuguese translation of FTMI Generative AI white paper now available

21 Jan 2025

A Portuguese language translation of the Gen AI white paper written by Prof. Daniel J. Gervais and published by FTMI together with CIAM, is now available to download . Titled “The Remuneration of Music Creators for the Use of Their…

Op-ed: What could the Bern Convention’s “Three-Step Test” mean for GenAI music?

15 Jan 2025

The three-step test is an important legal doctrine established in 1967 under the Bern Convention. It helps the 181 parties to this treaty to standardise any copyright limitations or exceptions that they wish to add to their respective national copyright…

FTMI Generative AI white paper now available in Spanish

13 Jan 2025

A Spanish language translation of the Gen AI white paper written by Prof. Daniel J. Gervais and published by FTMI together with CIAM, is now available to download . Titled “The Remuneration of Music Creators for the Use of Their…

Op-ed: My favourite album now costs me half a penny and that’s a problem

07 Jan 2025

Like many music lovers, I also enjoy learning about the equipment we use to listen to it. John Darko is perhaps my favourite voice in this space and regularly produces excellent opinion pieces. Below, he works out the cost of…

FTMI Generative AI white paper and campaign notes now available in French language

09 Dec 2024

The Gen AI white paper written by Prof. Daniel J. Gervais and published by FTMI together with CIAM, is now available to download in French language translation. Titled “The Remuneration of Music Creators for the Use of Their Works by…

“Taylor’s Guitar”: An essay on creative freedom by Charles Sanders

25 Oct 2024

Advisory board member, Charlie Sanders, recently published a guest post on the Trichordist website regarding the freedom to create and the lessons we can draw from history. The text is reproduced below with Charlie’s kind permission. Recently, a viral video…

FTMI partner announces new collaboration with the African Music Library

05 Oct 2024

The African Music Academy (AMA) has announced new partnership with the African Music Library (AML). This data-based documentation and preservation organisation aims to work with music makers, engineers, historians and anthropologist to document all music made in Africa. This objective…

In the press: “New generative AI remuneration right for creators proposed”

17 Sep 2024

From Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update: IP expert Daniel Gervais has proposed reforming copyright law to add a new remuneration right for creators whose work is used to train generative AI models. He says it would strange for copyright…

In the press: “Could a new remuneration right be the key to AI music licensing?”

16 Sep 2024

From Stuart Dredge at MusicAlly: The music industry has been clear on its views about training musical AIs: licensing deals are required. But what should those licensing deals look like? A new white paper written by Professor Daniel J. Gervais…