Universal Music Group has inked a first-time licensing deal with Meta to allow music from the major label’s artists to be uploaded to WhatsApp and shared without violating copyright ownership.
The move is part of an expanded global licensing agreement, first signed in 2017, to have Umg artists and songwriters continue placing copyrighted music across Meta’s platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Horizon and Threads.
As part of the agreement renewal, Umg artists and songwriters will receive a slice of advertising revenue from the use of licensed music on Meta creator posts.
The addition of licensed music to WhatsApp will come as Umg, led by CEO Lucian Grainge, continues to thwart unauthorized music, especially AI-generated content, infringing on the rights of the company’s artists and songwriters.
Michael Nash, chief digital officer and executive vp Umg, in a statement said: “We are delighted that Meta shares our artist-centric vision for...
The move is part of an expanded global licensing agreement, first signed in 2017, to have Umg artists and songwriters continue placing copyrighted music across Meta’s platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Horizon and Threads.
As part of the agreement renewal, Umg artists and songwriters will receive a slice of advertising revenue from the use of licensed music on Meta creator posts.
The addition of licensed music to WhatsApp will come as Umg, led by CEO Lucian Grainge, continues to thwart unauthorized music, especially AI-generated content, infringing on the rights of the company’s artists and songwriters.
Michael Nash, chief digital officer and executive vp Umg, in a statement said: “We are delighted that Meta shares our artist-centric vision for...
- 8/12/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Universal Music Group CEO Lucian Grange says his major music label goes both on offense and defense to protect the intellectual property rights of its artists and songwriters, led by Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga, from illegal generative artificial intelligence infringements.
“We recognize potential threats early and defend against them. I suppose it’s akin to carrying a stick when we consistently take industry-leading action to advance our artists’ interests and create new creative and commercial opportunities,” Grainge told an analyst call after the release of his company’s second quarter financial results.
Umg has been an early adopter of AI tools and technology — which includes deals with YouTube and Deezer — to advance an artist-centric model for royalty payments. That’s as the impact of generative AI has been more readily seen in music than in other entertainment industries.
Grainge argued Umg as a record label would not tolerate alleged...
“We recognize potential threats early and defend against them. I suppose it’s akin to carrying a stick when we consistently take industry-leading action to advance our artists’ interests and create new creative and commercial opportunities,” Grainge told an analyst call after the release of his company’s second quarter financial results.
Umg has been an early adopter of AI tools and technology — which includes deals with YouTube and Deezer — to advance an artist-centric model for royalty payments. That’s as the impact of generative AI has been more readily seen in music than in other entertainment industries.
Grainge argued Umg as a record label would not tolerate alleged...
- 7/24/2024
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Chicago – Michael P. Nash is a filmmaker on a mission. As searing heat bakes the country this summer, with extreme weather like severe tornadoes and the recent Galveston floods in its wake, the realities in Nash’s prescient 2010 documentary “Climate Refugees” is coming to our own shores. The veteran writer/director is currently working on the followup film “Chasing the Truth,” partnering with Leonardo Di Caprio and his father George.
“Climate Refugees” unveils for the first time the human face of climate change, following the stories of millions of displaced individuals worldwide. This this multi-award winning documentary stands out as a portrayal of the present-day consequences of climate change on humanity. While Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” addressed the causes of climate change, Nash’s film concentrated on the immediate effects experienced by individuals and communities worldwide, casting a light on the human face of our changing climate.
On...
“Climate Refugees” unveils for the first time the human face of climate change, following the stories of millions of displaced individuals worldwide. This this multi-award winning documentary stands out as a portrayal of the present-day consequences of climate change on humanity. While Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” addressed the causes of climate change, Nash’s film concentrated on the immediate effects experienced by individuals and communities worldwide, casting a light on the human face of our changing climate.
On...
- 7/20/2024
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Nothing had prepared William Passano for a new technology introduced in 1960 that threatened to upend his medical publishing business: the Xerox 914 photocopier. The machine offered the ability to produce cheap and quick duplicates that allowed the government’s National Library of Medicine to mass photocopy articles from his company’s copyrighted medical journals. Passano eventually sued in a case that went up to the Supreme Court, which ultimately took a cautious approach to regulating the emerging technology by ruling in 1975 that it was fair use for libraries to photocopy the originals. The justices left Congress to address the novel intellectual property issues raised in the case, leading to key revisions in copyright law a year later.
Fast forward half a century and the emergence of generative artificial intelligence has the similar potential to turn the entertainment industry on its head. While writers who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter weren’t...
Fast forward half a century and the emergence of generative artificial intelligence has the similar potential to turn the entertainment industry on its head. While writers who spoke with The Hollywood Reporter weren’t...
- 7/3/2023
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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