Activities of Ibán GARCÍA DEL BLANCO related to 2023/2054(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Cultural diversity and the conditions for authors in the European music streaming market (A9-0388/2023 - Ibán García Del Blanco) (vote)
Reports (1)
REPORT on cultural diversity and the conditions for authors in the European music streaming market
Amendments (31)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to Directive (EU) 2019/790 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market and amending Directives 96/9/EC and 2001/29/EC,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas human creativity and creative professionals such as authors and performers are at the origin and source of all music that is distributed on streaming platform;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the increasing number of acquisitions of song catalogues and recording rights by investors in recent years proves the overall enormous economic value and potential of written and recorded music;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas streaming music through digital music services and online content sharing service providers is now the main way in which people around the world enjoy music, providing access to up to 3more than 100 million tracks, available anywhere, anytime and on all kinds of devices, either for free or for a comparatively low monthly subscription fee;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas user-upload content on streaming services are providing access to a vast repertoire, usually at no cost to the user at the point of access, and whereas many of these streaming services fail to provide data or data is not of a sufficient quality to identify the authors, performers and other rightsholders, leading to supressed returns to creators and increased processing costs for rightsholders;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F b (new)
Recital F b (new)
Fb. whereas other factors including very high levels of concentration, unlicensed and under-licensed services, streaming manipulation and piracy are affecting the rise of a European healthy music streaming market;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas music streaming platforms should continue their efforts to increase overall transparency and traceability concerning many operational aspects of high relevance to authors, performers, rightholders, the audience and the general public, including most notably the functioning of their payment and remuneration systems, the curation of playlists, the discoverability of works, and the availability of metadata;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas authors' societies play a key role in rights management, collective negotiation and ensuring a proper value for the use of authors' works in the music streaming market;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Believes that voices of authors and performers must be taken into consideration in order to live up to the artistic, cultural and societal value and importance of their role in the music market; welcomes any efforts to improve the payment systems of music streaming platforms towards more adequately benefiting authors and performers;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to evaluate whether the fundamental principle of appropriate and proportionate remuneration is fulfilled by current payment systems of streaming platforms as well as by existing contracts concluded between authors and performers on the one hand and other actors of the value chain within the music sector on the other;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Encourages the Commission to evaluate whether technologies such as blockchain have the potential to improve the overall situation, especially for authors, performers and rightholders, with regards to transparency, accuracy and cost efficiency, in particular concerning metadata and remuneration;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Urges stakeholders to take the necessary steps to eliminate this imbalance, and asks the Commission to monitor any possible progress in this respect and to consider possible appropriate policy options, if this is not addressed by voluntary stakeholder initiatives;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Highlights the importance of overall transparency and traceability concerning many operational aspects of high relevance to authors, performers, rightholders, the audience and the general public, including most notably the functioning of the streaming platforms’ payment and remuneration systems, the curation of playlists, the discoverability of works, and the availability of metadata; regrets that in general, music streaming platforms significantly lack such transparency and traceability
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. 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 by putting an end to unfair competition practices among online platforms and music streaming service providers;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses the importance of ensuring investment in new European talent and music, by boosting the investment capacity through appropriate funding instruments, including through the Creative Europe programme;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to properly implement the rules applicable to online content sharing service providers with a view to ensure an appropriate remuneration of authors , performers and other rightholders from that service provider, by putting an end to non-licensed and under-licensed use of musical works;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to propose a legal framework to ensure the prominence and discoverability of European works on music streaming platforms, to ensure that editorial algorithm and content recommendation systems, including playlists, are used based on fair, reasonable and transparent terms that do not negatively affect diversity, local repertoire and opportunities for artist discovery;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Emphasises the need to collect usage data for all musical works available on the streaming service in order to provide sufficiently and regularly good quality data in a format agreed among relevant actors, to enable them to accurately distribute the revenues and ensuring fair remuneration; Insists that licencing and music recognition technology should be deployed, in consultation with rights holders, in order to facilitate the implementation of EU legislation;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to gather objective data and to examine concrete solutions to ensure the visibility of European works, including to reflect on the possibility of imposing quotas on European works on music streaming platforms;,
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to assess adequate ways in order to preserve the digital European musical heritage, while reducing the de- facto dependence on commercial music streaming platforms, ensuring the availability and accessibility of European musical works in the long term;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for the ethical use of AI in the music sector and supports maximum transparency and respect of all EU legal requirements in any aspect of the development, production and delivery of musical works by means of AI technologies;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to propose legal obligations to ensure the transparency of the algorithms and content recommendation systems of very large music streaming platforms, with a view to preventing fraudulent and unfair streaming manipulation practices, such as streaming fraudunfair and fraudulent practices, such as streaming manipulation, the use of deepfakes and fake artists, that are used to reduce costs and further lower value for professionals authors, as well as to ensure cultural diversity;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Emphasises that the publicusers and the public in general should be informed if the musical works, songs or artists they listen to on music streaming platforms have been generated by AI and not byexclusively by AI, without the assistance of human authors; stresses, in this regard, the need to set up an clear, timely and visible ‘AI- generated’ label forto inform of AI-generated music;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Welcomes dialogue among main stakeholders to tackle the spread of deepfakes in music streaming platforms while considering the interest of authors and performers; recalls that deploying identification tools and easily accessible reporting mechanism for authors, performers and other rightholders would be necessary; recalls that deep fakes are using the voices and image of artist without their consent;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Emphasises, furthermore, the need to ensure that authors, whose works have been used for training AI-generating applications, receive fair remuneration for iperformers and other rightholders can easily authorise or prevent their works from being used for the purpose of AI training and that they receive fair remuneration when their works are used with their agreement;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Stresses that the necessary EU requirements for transparency, consent and remuneration for the use of protected works by generative AI tools shall apply to all services and outputs available in the EU, regardless of where the training, design or development phase of such tools or models takes place;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Considers that any provider of a foundational models of generative AI, must be subject to stronger transparency requirements such as the production of a summary with the list of the copyright protected content used on the training of their models;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Calls on the Commission to assess whether current legislation on transparency, consent and remuneration of authors, performers and other rightholders in the European music sector is adequately implemented, particularly by providers and users of AI generative models and, in its case, to consider whether a revision of the rules is necessary in order to ensure a fair and sustainable European music ecosystem;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Invites the Commission to establish a structured dialogue between all the 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 in particular towards authors, performers and other rightholders, in particular European small and micro independent producers;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Invites the Commission to consider introducing a European industrial strategy for music to make the EU play a role in promoting the diversity of EU artists and works, focusing on the strength and diversity of Europe’s music sector, boosting smaller players, getting more investment, providing more exposure to artists and quantifying the results.
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Points out that action could be taken at EU level to educate authors about their metadata, the role such metadata plays in the music value chain and guidance on its correct use;