UMG’s Frank Briegmann advocates for strong copyright safety on ‘AI and Content material Creation’ panel at Davos

Common Music Group has been a number one advocate for the safety of artists’ rights and copyrights amid the rise of AI over the previous couple of years.

Final March, for instance, Roland and UMG revealed the Ideas for Music Creation with AI, a manifesto for the accountable use of AI in music creation. A number of months later, over 50 distinguished entities within the music trade added their help to the initiative. 

In October, in the meantime, UMG partnered with KLAY Imaginative and prescient Inc to develop a “business moral foundational mannequin for AI generated music that works in collaboration with the music trade and its creators”.

And over the summer time, UMG struck a strategic partnership with AI tech firm SoundLabs centered on ‘ethically’ skilled instruments for music creators.

This week, UMG took its copyright safety advocacy efforts to one of the high-profile dialogue boards in Europe.

On Wednesday (January 22), on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Frank Briegmann, the Chairman & CEO of Common Music Central Europe and Deutsche Grammophon, delivered a robust message on the significance of copyright safety.

Briegmann participated in a high-profile panel dialogue on synthetic intelligence and media titled “AI and Content material Creation: Navigating the Stability Between Innovation and Mental Property.”

Throughout the panel dialogue, Briegmann advised the viewers of the important want for robust copyright laws and firmly opposed any textual content and knowledge mining exceptions in copyright regulation.

“Creators and innovators drive tradition and progress, and their rights have to be upheld, not undermined by loopholes that erode the worth of their work,” Briegmann advised the viewers.

“Creators and innovators drive tradition and progress, and their rights have to be upheld, not undermined by loopholes that erode the worth of their work”.

Frank Briegmann 

Briegmann’s remarks highlighted the broader issues surrounding the misuse of AI in inventive industries and referred to as for truthful compensation frameworks that acknowledge the worth of mental property amid AI’s fast rise.

The exec’s advocacy efforts echoed Common Music Group’s ongoing work to safeguard the rights of artists, composers, and creators globally.

Earlier this month, for instance, Common and different music firms secured a major improvement of their copyright battle with synthetic intelligence firm Anthropic after the court docket authorized protecting measures or “guardrails” for AI-generated track lyrics.

UMG, together with different publishers together with Harmony Music Group and ABKCO, sued Anthropic in 2023, alleging copyright infringement.

Along with Briegmann, the AI and content material creation panel in Davos featured Wealthy Caccappolo (Vice Chairman, dmg media), Anastasia Nyrkovskaya (CEO, Fortune), David Rhodes (Government Chairman, Sky Information).

It was moderated by Invoice Gross, (CEO ProRata.ai and Founder and CEO, Idealab) and Nicholas Thompson (CEO, The Atlantic).

The panel, co-organized by ProRata.ai and The Atlantic, introduced collectively over 100 distinguished media and enterprise executives.

Common Music Group struck a strategic settlement with ProRata.ai in August 2024.Music Enterprise Worldwide