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Asia pacific

  • Australia is the AI copyright outlier, and the world's music publishers are warning it

    The International Confederation of Music Publishers says 62 countries have weighed loosening copyright for AI training and Australia now looks like the only one still considering it. It says Gemini can reproduce lyrics by Kylie Minogue, G-Flip and Nick Cave. A parliamentary committee is due to report by 30 November, so Australian artists have weeks to be heard.

    Artist rightsvia Guardian Australia

  • Indonesia rewrites how music royalties are split, and says live streams can owe them too

    Indonesia's national royalty body, LMKN, has issued 2026 distribution rules that pay first on reported usage data and give a capped fallback allocation to members whose songs never show up in the logs. The same body says music in TikTok and YouTube live streams can owe royalties. For songwriters, getting your songs into the data now decides more of what you're paid.

    Industryvia LMKN

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