Changes from report parliamentary committee draft to plenary report

Removed9. Notes that there is strong competition between music streaming providers on the European market, with a few dominant global players; recalls the need for the rapid implementation of the Digital Market Act and the Digital Services Act in order to ensure a fair ecosystem among online platforms and music service providers;

Added11. Stresses the need to raise awareness, in particular among young authors, of the importance of accurately getting credited and paid for their music in the streaming market; welcomes relevant research programmes and initiatives, including at international level, and calls on the Commission to explore ways to support such initiatives;

RemovedProminence and discoverability of EU works

Added12. Recalls the need to ensure the value of authors’ rights, regardless of what music streaming services offer; notes that several recent studies, show that a majority of authors and performers do not receive sufficient revenue from music streaming; calls for the revision of pre-digital royalty rates to bring them into line with fair and modern rates; condemns the existence of any schemes, such as so-called payola schemes, that would force authors to accept lower or no revenue in exchange for greater visibility, thereby further reducing authors’ already very low streaming revenue, especially given that the promise of greater visibility remains unfulfilled in most cases;

Removed10. Points out that action at EU level must be taken to guarantee the visibility and accessibility of European works, considering the wealth of content currently available on music streaming platforms;

Added13. Notes that the competition between music streaming providers on the European market is dominated by a few global players; recalls the need to rapidly implement the Digital Market Act and the Digital Services Act in order to ensure a fair ecosystem, by putting an end to unfair competition practices by online content-sharing platforms and music streaming service providers in the music streaming market, such as those enabling users to illegally stream or download protected content; stressed the need for transparency and efficient auditing in this regard; highlights the necessity of eliminating such infringements on and by platforms, as well as on app stores;

Removed11. Calls on the Commission to propose a legal framework to ensure the prominence and discoverability of European works on music streaming platforms;

Added14. Stresses the importance of ensuring investment in new European talent and music, including local artists, niche artists and artists from vulnerable communities, through appropriate funding instruments, including the Creative Europe programme to boost investment in more diverse forms of repertoire in terms of language or genre, in the provision of digital skills and in the digital transformation of business models and stresses the need to raise authors’ awareness of their rights;

Removed12. Calls on the Commission, in this context, to ensure that this framework includes specific diversity indicators that would allow for an independent assessment of the use and visibility of European works, for example, in national and minority languages or published by independent authors;

Added15. Supports promoting the sharing of information about artists’ live performances on platforms, especially for local artists, to facilitate new discoveries and further visibility;

Removed13. Stresses, moreover, that this would require regular monitoring and reporting on the prominence and discoverability of European works on, among others, curated playlists, user interfaces and recommendation systems;

Added16. Asks all stakeholders in the music streaming sector to work together to assess and reduce the carbon footprint of digital music;

Removed14. Calls on the Commission to reflect on the possibility of imposing quotas on European works on music streaming platforms;

AddedProminence and discoverability of European musical works

Added17. Calls for action to be taken at Union level to guarantee the visibility and accessibility of European musical works, considering the overwhelming amount of content constantly growing on music streaming platforms and the lack of Union rules to regulate them in a harmonised manner;

Added18. Welcomes the study launched by the Commission that aims to assess the discoverability of European musical works in the music ecosystem, including through music streaming services; asks the Commission, based on these results, to propose adequate measures, including a legal framework to ensure the visibility, accessibility and prominence of European musical works on music streaming platforms;

Added19. Calls on the Commission, in this context, to ensure that such a legal framework includes specific diversity indicators that would allow for an independent assessment of the use and visibility of European musical works and its diversity of genres, languages and independent authors;

Added20. Stresses, moreover, that such a legal framework would require the Commission to identify best practices to test diversified content promoted on platform interfaces and to regularly monitor and report on this with a clear methodology to comprehend and assess the visibility of European musical works in, among others, curated playlists, user interfaces, algorithmic choices and recommendation systems to ensure prominence and discoverability;

Added21. Calls on the Commission to collect data and conduct a thorough analysis aimed at ensuring the discoverability of European musical works through music streaming services, as well as to create a structured dialogue between all parties involved; asks the Commission, based on the findings, to reflect on the possibility of imposing concrete measures, such as quotas for European musical works, on music streaming platforms;

Added22. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to assess adequate ways to preserve the digital European musical heritage, while reducing the de facto dependence on commercial music streaming platforms so as to ensure the availability and accessibility of European musical works in the long term;

Towards the ethical use of AI

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Changed15.23. Calls for the ethical use of AI in the musicCCS, sectorincluding music, and supportshighlights that AI can be a tool for artists to explore, innovate and enhance their own creations; calls for maximum transparency inand anystresses aspectthe ofneed to ensure compliance with all Union legal requirements on the development, production and delivery of musical works by means of AI technologies; stresses the need to address the specific implications of AI uses in in the CCS;

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Changed16.24. Calls on the Commission to propose legal obligationstargeted provisions to ensure the transparency of the algorithms and content recommendation systems ofon veryall largerelevant music streaming platforms, with a view to preventing fraudulent and unfair streaming manipulation practices, suchpractices asand streaming fraud and fake artists that are used to reduce costs and further lower value for professional authors,authors; asasks wellthe asmusic services to ensurecontinue culturalinvesting diversity;in adequate tools to identify such activities;

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Changed17.25. Emphasises that the rise of AI-generated content has led to a growing number of tracks uploaded to streaming platforms, which makes ensuring the prominence and discoverability of European musical works even more important; highlights that the public should be informedaware ifof whether the musical works, songs or artists they listen to on music streaming platforms have been generated mainly by AI andand/or notwithout bythe substantial contribution of human authors; stresses, in this regard, the need to work towards ensuring that consumers are well-informed, and stresses the need to set up ana ‘AI-generated’clear, timely and visible label forto inform the public about purely AI-generated music;works that do not involve the expression of the author’s personality or creativity;

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Removed18. Emphasises, furthermore, the need to ensure that authors, whose works have been used for training AI-generating applications, receive fair remuneration for it;

Added26. Welcomes the dialogue between stakeholders on tackling the spread of deepfakes on music streaming platforms, and calls for the interests of all authors and performers to be considered; recalls that deepfakes are outputs produced by AI models and applications that may use authors’ and performers’ identities, voices and likenesses without their consent; calls for the increased deployment of identification tools to detect deepfakes and manipulated content and calls for easily accessible reporting mechanisms for authors, performers and other rights holders;

Added27. Stresses that authors, performers and other rights holders should be allowed to reserve and license the rights for the use of their work for AI training, development or design beyond scientific research; emphasises, in this regard, the need for transparency on the training content protected under copyright law for the purposes of generative AI systems in order to ensure it is in compliance with applicable Union or national copyright law and stresses that, therefore, the providers of such AI generative systems must document and make publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary on the use of such training data, regardless of where such training took place, in order to allow for the proper application of the text and data mining exception provided for under Union copyright law;

Perspectives

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Changed19.28. Calls on the Commission to consider the possibility of settingset up a European music observatory to provide information on music markets in the EUUnion by collecting and analysing data in the Member States, as well as to analyse and report on legal issues affecting the music sector, in particular the music streaming market;market, with a view to developing the sector;

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Removed20. Invites the Commission to establish a structured dialogue between the stakeholders in order to discuss current issues affecting the music streaming market and to work together to find common solutions;

Added29. Calls on the Commission to further improve the Creative Europe programme, in particular through comprehensive action on music;

Added30. Stresses that music has great potential to further promote European culture, history, heritage, values and diversity; believes that music also has the potential to contribute to the Union’s soft power; highlights that the promotion of European artists in third countries should be a strong focus of the Union; calls on the Commission, in this regard, to develop a comprehensive European export strategy on European musical works;

Added31. Invites the Commission to establish a structured dialogue between all stakeholders in order to discuss current issues affecting the music streaming market and to work together to find common solutions towards a fairer distribution of the revenues from music streaming platforms, in particular for authors, performers and small and micro independent producers, in parallel to its expected legislative proposals regarding the transparency of algorithms and the prominence of European musical works;

Added32. Invites the Commission to consider introducing a European industrial strategy for music to make the Union play a role in promoting the diversity of its artists and musical works, focusing on the strength and diversity of the European music sector, boosting smaller players, acquiring more investment, providing more exposure to artists and quantifying the results;

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33. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and to the Commission.