“MPs call for songwriters to be fairly remunerated.”

Thanks Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

The Ivors Academy

ivorsacademy.com/news/senior-mp…

The NYT reports that:

- OpenAI built a tool to transcribe YouTube videos to train its LLMs (likely infringing copyright)
- Greg Brockman personally helped scrape the videos
- OpenAI knew it was a legal gray area
- Google may have used YouTube videos the same way
- Meta avoided…

51% of female musicians face discrimination in the music industry, as revealed by the latest Musicians’ Census report in collaboration with Musicians' Union and Women in CTRL

bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

Ian Hislop and Lewis Goodall discussing the ridiculous statements by many right wingers pretending to be working class!!!

Funny piece The News Agents Global 👌

Creative Industries make up 6% of our economy. That’s more than car and oil industries together. They employ 2.3million people. To cut funding for creative arts at university level is fudge-brained, cack-hearted thinking pitched very much at the highest level of economic…

With your support, we're not just funding music education, we're investing in the leaders + innovators of tomorrow. This tax year, make a difference with Tomorrow's Warriors. Let's build a world where every voice is heard + every talent flourishes. THANK YOU❤️ 🙏🏾gofundme.com/iamwarrior2023

On BBC Radio 4 Today from 2:49:20 this morning : Soweto Kinch talking about the new 5 nights a week BBC Radio 3 show 'Round Midnight / bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

“The world has begun to appreciate the power & potential dangers inherent in AI tools which can mimic voices, generate fake photographs & alter video. This is not a problem that will go away by itself.”
—Josh Schiller, lawyer representing the Carlin estate
theverge.com/2024/4/3/24119…

Streaming platforms are hosting AI-generated music created on platforms that may be trained on copyrighted music without permission / payment.

As ~250 artists and songwriters recently said, this will “substantially dilute the royalty pools that are paid out to artists”.

What is…

The Ivors have always had the respect of the artist community as its about song writing and Exceptional songs, To have Bruce come and receive his award makes it a special one, cant wait for this one

Around 250 artists & songwriters have made a statement in opposition to generative AI using their work without permission to train models that compete with them.

The list includes Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Elvis Costello, R.E.M., Mumford & Sons, Katy Perry and many more.

This…

March best bits, championing songwriters and composers 👊

1️⃣ & 2️⃣ Ivor Novello Rising Star winner victoria canal and Crae Wolf from our creative development programme Inside Track performing at SXSW © Thomas Jackson Thomas @ TyneSight

Don't trust polls, but the most recent Survation. & Best for Britain MRP has us taking Brighton Pavilion for Labour.

Won't let up for a second, mind...

#tg4pav

bestforbritain.org/spring-2024-po…

A small fee on tickets at arenas and stadiums could be used to set up a support fund, Mark Davyd, CEO of Music Venue Trust, told MPs this week - read more on Resident Advisor: ra.co/news/80480

On music

vm.tiktok.com/ZGeauULKy/

The final episode of the wonderful Freeness with Corey Mwamba airs tonight. It’s sad to see this crucial BBC platform for improvised music coming to an end, but what a fantastic achievement. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Book your tickets this Easter for our festival 12-19 May 🐣🎶💃🕺🏻 From just £10-£27.50!

Ray Gelato & Xantoné Blacq, Imogen Ryall, LoKkhi TeRra & Dele Sosimi, Fergus Quill, Maddy Coombs, Jean Toussaint, Emile Hinton, Ronnie Scott’s All Stars, Charlie Pyne, Tom Ridout + many more

Big news!!!! So happy to share! A daily jazz show championing the thriving British jazz scene is incoming in April on BBC Radio 3 Folded Wing #jazz #jazz music #jazz radio

Trade secrets, patents & licensing - tonight's BBC Dragons' Den didn’t hold back when it came to IP.

While the Dragons took a nap, we were busy writing about the IP protected by the businesses.

Read more (link): dragonsden.blog.gov.uk

Remy @furrboost @newsmagmedia

“I have never known a more dire situation in television in twenty years. Every freelancer I know is unemployed.'~ Unscripted TV producer

Bectu’s latest film&TV report lays bare the shocking work drought in the industry. Read more testimonies from the survey on our website.