July 30 2025
📝 ICMP co-signs joint statement of serious concern as part of international coalition of music and other creative industries as to how the EU is implementing its landmark EU AI Act.
QUOTES:
“Despite the extensive, highly detailed and good-faith engagements by rightsholder communities throughout this process, the final outcomes fail to address the core concerns which our sectors – and the millions of creators and companies active in Europe which we represent – have consistently raised.” – International coalition of music and creative industries.
“This political approach risks a deal being undone.
The EU AI Act agreed last year between Parliament, the EU27 and European Commission was an excellent text. However, the Commission’s newly released key tool of an AI Training Disclosure Template falls seriously short of the law’s stated goal of enabling rightholders such as the music industry to effectively enforce their rights against illegal use of music by tech companies for GenAI.
ICMP joins a huge number of creative sector colleagues to say the package as is will ‘weaken sectors across Europe and do nothing to tackle ongoing violations of EU laws’. The EU must urgently address this”. – John Phelan, ICMP Director General.
