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Artist representatives launch ‘Say No To Suno’ campaign: ‘AI slop dilutes the royalty pools of legitimate artists from whose music this slop is derived.’ - Music Business Worldwide Open letter slams AI music generator…

❌ In an open letter titled "Say No to Suno", published on Music Tech Policy blog, 7 signatories, including ECSA President Helienne Lindvall @helienne.bsky.social, call to take a stand against AI music generator Suno.

➡️ Full piece: shorturl.at/xlxhK
➡️ Coverage by MBW: shorturl.at/kto8f

ECSA's January news is out!

🔵 ECSA welcomes JURI report on copyright and AI
🔵 ECSA at ESNS: Creators' Talks panel and much more
🔵 ECSA President @helienne.bsky.social interviewed on #AI on Bloomberg Tech Europe
🔵 NFMD and SCGC panels in Berlin, Camille Awards news, and much more!

➡️ bit.ly/4kbwSnl

“Safeguarding faces & voices ultimately means safeguarding ourselves. Embracing the opportunities offered by digital technology & AI with courage, determination & discernment does not mean turning a blind eye to critical issues, complexities & risks…

DO NOT RENOUNCE YOUR ABILITY TO THINK.”
Pope Leo

It takes willful blindness & an impoverished sense of morality to suggest the nonconsensual corporate strip mining of our creativity to build AI machines is in anyway fair. Essentially like saying that Renee Good was killed in self defense. It takes ignoring reality. So perhaps we shouldn’t do that?

STOP THE INTERNET —
WE HAVE A WINNER 🏆

“We will not use AI, because it has no taste.”

I read this paragraph four times. Not because it's murky, but to let the message sink in. www.cjr.org/tow_center/b...

If an information company is clear and determined in supporting (not "saving') democracy, then it can be a home for good journalism. If not then the press must disengage. Now.

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat

Imo “Nigel Farage doesn’t believe in Covid vaccines” would tank his polling if more people knew about it (though you could say that for a number of his policies)

EU AI Act is Toothless: ECSA President The European Composer & Songwriter Alliance says licensing is a good first step, but has called for greater transparency over the deals major labels are striking with AI music cpmpanies. The group's P...

This morning, ECSA President Helienne Lindvall @helienne.bsky.social spoke live with Tom Mackenzie on Bloomberg Tech Europe about the impact of #AI on composers and songwriters, as well as on the music industry as a whole.

▶️ Watch the full show, with Helienne's interview from 18:10, below:

“You cannot be selective in your defence of law - you cannot say: ‘I like that law, I will uphold that one, I will not uphold the other’” - Margaret Thatcher, interview on the Middle East with the Jewish Chronicle, June 1981.

“If we are not going to live by a system of international law, we are going to live by international anarchy. Then no people anywhere in the world are safe....

Jan 1.
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The real reason Venezuela matters YouTube video by Sky News

📽️Donald Trump wants you to know he's targeting Venezuela because of illegal drugs.
But what if this were really about something else altogether...?
Dig into the murky world of crude oil refining and you find another, even more intriguing explanation...
Full primer 👇 youtu.be/Pgwny1BiCYk?...

GS: “Sen. Warner said you can’t argue drug trafficking charges demand invasion in one case while issuing a pardon in another…”🤔

@marcorubio: “Maduro was indicted.”

GS: “Hernandez was CONVICTED.”

RUBIO: “I wasn't involved in the pardon… I've got other things going on.” 🤷🏽‍♂️

World leaders react to US capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro There has been a mixed reaction to a large-scale strike on Venezuela and Maduro's capture by the US.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

If there was ever a tiny chance Trump could win the Nobel Peace Prize, it is now gone:

Norway's foreign minister said "international law is universal and binding for all states.

"The American intervention in Venezuela is not in accordance with international law."

The 100 Best Cities In The World To Live, Work And Visit, Rated In A 2025 Resonance Report Looking for the best cities in the world? What about the best cities to live in the U.S.? A new report has the answers.

www.forbes.com/sites/laurab... I already knew it, but nice that Forbes agrees that I live in the best city in the world. Proof of the benefits of multiculturalism. Take that Farage!

Donald Trump = Neville Chamberlain

Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.

How refreshing.

That's not an opinion, it's counting.

The company said AI tools had made it easier to generate spam content such as impersonations, ultra-short tracks and mass uploads of artificial music, which range from meditation instrumentals to duplicates of famous artists.

Spotify removes 75m spam tracks in past year as AI increases ability to make fake music Streamer to crack down on AI-generated spam by introducing filter to identify fraudulent uploads

Spotify said it would start rolling out a music spam filter to identify uploaders, tag them and stop the tracks from being recommended by its algorithm. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Tommy Robinson’s march was a drunken, coked-up mess He claimed the world was watching, but most of London barely noticed - and much of what was on view was appalling

“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... So true

Helienne Lindvall: Secure authors' rights in the AI Act, funding and a European strategy for music <p>Helienne Lindvall, President of the European Composer & Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) talks to CU about rising authors' challenges in the AI era and their focus on securing consent, remuneration and t...

"Key tools for implementing the AI Act such as the GPAI Code of Practice, the GPAI guidelines and the template for the summary of content used for training by AI providers are toothless and disappointing", @helienne.bsky.social states.

📰 Full interview: bit.ly/4mdM6bt

ECSA's June news is out!

🔵 #AI: joint letter to European Parliament’s JURI Committee
🔵 ECSA President @helienne.bsky.social joins meetings in New York and Biarritz
🔵 Joint call: increase the budget of #CreativeEurope
🔵 EFM, SoundTrack _Cologne, and much more!

➡️ Read: bit.ly/4lqZtVz

A grim reminder to all those who embrace “opt-outs” as a viable way of preventing unauthorized AI use. Even when backed up by technology, they are circumvented!

“Meanwhile, there’s an entire online ecosystem of tutorials about how to evade Cloudflare’s bot blocking tools aimed at web scrapers.”

“The writing that AI produces feels cheap because it is cheap. It feels simple because it is simple to produce. That is the whole point. AI is an enormously powerful tool, here to stay, with the capacity for real societal benefits—but the replacement of art and artists isn’t one of them.”

Am in NYC and reminded why it appears many in the US don’t care about what Russia is doing to Ukraine. No news station reported on last night’s bombings of Kyiv. It’s all about this manufactured “national crisis” in LA