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2025 Fair Trade Music International Awards presented in Johannesburg

23 Oct 2025

Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Myung Sun Yoon receive 2025 FTMI Award for outstanding contribution to music creators. 23 October 2025 – Johannesburg, South Africa: Fair Trade Music International (FTMI) has…

My favourite album now costs me half a penny – that’s a problem, right?

06 Jan 2025

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Like many music lovers, I also enjoy learning about the equipment we use to listen to it. John Darko is perhaps my favourite voice in this space and regularly produces…

FTMI joins NYS legal panel on foreign music publishing and neighboring rights

04 Nov 2024

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On Friday 1 November, FTMI advisory board member, Charlie Sanders, participated in New York State Bar Association’s panel on foreign music publishing and neighboring rights. Representing FTMI, the Songwriters Guild of…

FTMI announces recipients of 2024 awards for outstanding contribution to music creator rights

28 Oct 2024

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Teresa Parodi and Satoshi Watanabe are recipients of the FTMI Award for outstanding contribution to music creator rights in 2024. 28 October 2024 – Montréal, Canada: Fair Trade Music International…

FTMI partner announces new collaboration with the African Music Library

05 Oct 2024

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The African Music Academy (AMA) has announced new partnership with the African Music Library (AML). This data-based documentation and preservation organisation aims to work with music makers, engineers, historians and…

S.A.C. participates in Canadian heritage survey on AI and the Cultural Sector

23 Sep 2024

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Our clients at the Songwriters Association of Canada (S.A.C.) are pleased to announce their recent invitation by the Department of Canadian Heritage to participate in an important survey on the…

In the press: “New generative AI remuneration right for creators proposed”

17 Sep 2024

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From Chris Cooke at Complete Music Update: IP expert Daniel Gervais has proposed reforming copyright law to add a new remuneration right for creators whose work is used to train…

In the press: “Could a new remuneration right be the key to AI music licensing?”

16 Sep 2024

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From Stuart Dredge at MusicAlly: The music industry has been clear on its views about training musical AIs: licensing deals are required. But what should those licensing deals look like?…

New remuneration right could solve legal and ethical challenges of generative AI for music creators

12 Sep 2024

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Legal analysis white paper, authored by Prof. Daniel Gervais and released by FTMI, now available to download as an eBook 12 September 2024 – Toronto: One of the world’s leading…

FTMI partners express support for MLC improvement comments

03 Sep 2024

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Coalition of independent US and global songwriters and composers expresses thanks and support to representative Scott Fitzgerald (R-WI) for his letter urging improvements to the US Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC)…

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2025 Fair Trade Music International Awards presented in Johannesburg

My favourite album now costs me half a penny – that’s a problem, right?

FTMI joins NYS legal panel on foreign music publishing and neighboring rights

FTMI announces recipients of 2024 awards for outstanding contribution to music creator rights

FTMI partner announces new collaboration with the African Music Library

S.A.C. participates in Canadian heritage survey on AI and the Cultural Sector

In the press: “New generative AI remuneration right for creators proposed”

In the press: “Could a new remuneration right be the key to AI music licensing?”

New remuneration right could solve legal and ethical challenges of generative AI for music creators

FTMI partners express support for MLC improvement comments

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