https://wearethemusicmakers.co/latest Music tech and AI in music: the news that matters, what we think about it, and a directory of the tools. en-us Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:30:00 GMT https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/brazil-ecad-letter-big-tech-ai-licensing-bill-stalled https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/brazil-ecad-letter-big-tech-ai-licensing-bill-stalled ECAD, Brazil's central collecting office, and the music societies that run it joined broadcasters and publishers in a letter to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Amazon and others. It says AI use of their members' work needs authorisation and payment under the 1998 copyright law, and invites talks to avoid litigation. Brazil's AI bill, which would write that into statute, has stalled in the Chamber of Deputies until after the elections. Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicartist-rightscopyrightcollecting-societiesbrazilecadopenaipl-2338 https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/saregama-ai-music-videos-old-catalogue https://wearethemusicmakers.co/news/2026/08/saregama-ai-music-videos-old-catalogue Saregama owns the songs and recordings for much of Hindi cinema's 1960s and 1970s music, but not the film clips that went with them. It now uses generative AI to make new videos for those songs, and to rework some for younger listeners, while it still argues against unlicensed AI. The label hasn't said whether the original singers' or composers' estates get any say. Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:30:00 GMT We are the music makers ai-musicartist-rightsindustrycataloguemusic-videosaregamaopenaiindia