BECS Acts to Protect Audiovisual Performers’ Rights from Unauthorised AI Training
The British Equity Collecting Society (BECS) is taking essential action to defend audiovisual performers in the age of AI. AI developers continue to use recorded performances without consent or payment. BECS is exercising an opt–out from the EU text and data mining exception – making it unequivocally clear that our members’ performances cannot be reproduced, mined, or used to train AI systems without explicit authorisation.
Joint call for a strong budget and an ambitious sectoral approach for music within the future AgoraEU programme
Together with a number of organisations from across Europe’s music ecosystem, AEPO-ARTIS calls on the EU institutions to adopt a sector-specific strategic approach for European music, with increased funding, alongside the horizontal actions in the future AgoraEU programme 2028-2034.
MUSIC360 closing event at the European Parliament
Join us for an afternoon session at the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, 25th February 2026 from 15:00 to 17:00 hrs CET (Room A3F383) kindly hosted by MEP Hélder Sousa Silva (EPP, Portugal) where The Music 360 Project will be presented...
BECS Acts to Protect Audiovisual Performers’ Rights from Unauthorised AI Training
The British Equity Collecting Society (BECS) is taking essential action to defend audiovisual performers in the age of AI. AI developers continue to use recorded performances without consent or payment. BECS is exercising an opt–out from the EU text and data mining exception – making it unequivocally clear that our members’ performances cannot be reproduced, mined, or used to train AI systems without explicit authorisation.
Joint call for a strong budget and an ambitious sectoral approach for music within the future AgoraEU programme
Together with a number of organisations from across Europe’s music ecosystem, AEPO-ARTIS calls on the EU institutions to adopt a sector-specific strategic approach for European music, with increased funding, alongside the horizontal actions in the future AgoraEU programme 2028-2034.
MUSIC360 closing event at the European Parliament
Join us for an afternoon session at the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, 25th February 2026 from 15:00 to 17:00 hrs CET (Room A3F383) kindly hosted by MEP Hélder Sousa Silva (EPP, Portugal) where The Music 360 Project will be presented...
A new report entitled Streams & Dreams Part 2 – The Impact of the DSM Directive on EU Artists and Musicians, written by the independent music business researcher Daniel Johansson (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences) and published on June 13th, proves the ineffectiveness of the DSM Directive.
Based upon a survey of 9.542 artists from 19 EU countries, conducted by AEPO-ARTIS and its members in collaboration with IAO, this is one of the most substantiated reports ever done on issues related to performers in the music industry. The report is available here.
