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  • Italy wrote "human authorship" into law: what its AI act means for producers using AI

    Italy's AI law, Law No. 132 of 2025, amended the country's copyright act so that only works of human intellect are protected, including AI-assisted works that are "the result of the author's intellectual work". It also made spreading harmful AI-faked voices a crime. The law doesn't say how much human input is enough, so the evidence a producer keeps becomes the practical safeguard.

    Artist rightsvia Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana

  • Live Nation after the verdict: the fight that matters to artists is over who books the big rooms

    Six months after a jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster liable for monopolisation, the judge had not ruled, as far as we could find, on throwing out the verdict, and the federal settlement is still under review. A new filing says President Trump briefly appeared at the March meeting where it was agreed. For working artists, ticket fees matter less than whether Live Nation can keep tying its promotion to the venues it controls.

    Artist rightsvia US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division

  • The Living Wage for Musicians Act would pay artists from a streaming fund. A year on, it has not moved

    H.R. 5664 would add a fee of half the subscription price, between $4 and $10, to every music streaming subscription and take 10% of streamers' other music revenue, then pay the money straight to human recording artists, capped at a million streams per track a month. It was referred to the House Judiciary Committee on 30 September 2025, and Congress.gov shows no action since.

    Artist rightsvia U.S. Government Publishing Office

  • AM/FM radio still pays US recording artists nothing, and the American Music Fairness Act has stalled again

    The American Music Fairness Act would make AM and FM stations pay performers and labels for the recordings they play, as satellite and internet radio already must. As of 23 Oct 2026 neither the Senate nor the House bill has gone beyond committee referral, despite a Senate hearing in December 2025. A resolution opposing any new radio fee has more than 230 House cosponsors.

    Artist rightsvia US Government Publishing Office (govinfo)

  • India's labels want streaming services to pay nothing for AI "slop". Who decides what counts?

    Saregama's managing director Vikram Mehra says labels in India and globally are working with the three leading streaming services so that purely AI-generated music gets no share of the royalty pool. The principle protects human artists, but it leaves open who draws the line, how AI-assisted work is treated, and who keeps the money that slop no longer earns.

    Industryvia Deezer Newsroom

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