Glossary

Music Services and Platforms

  • Apple Music (Global): Apple’s music-streaming subscription service, offering recorded music, playlists and radio across supported countries and regions. Official site
  • ArtMaster (Artie): A music-education company offering online music courses and Artie, an AI-assisted piano-learning app that provides guided song practice and feedback on playing captured through a microphone or MIDI connection. Official site
  • Audiotool: A browser-based music-production studio for creating, recording, remixing and publishing music, with collaboration tools and a community for sharing tracks. Official site
  • Beat Shaper: An AI-assisted electronic music-production tool that generates editable multitrack MIDI loops from text prompts, with browser-based editing and export options. Official site
  • BeatViz: An AI-powered online service for creating music videos, including visuals generated and synchronized to music. Official site
  • Cyanite: A music-analysis technology company offering AI-powered tagging, music search and recommendation tools through a web app and API. Official site
  • Deezer (France; global service): A global music-streaming service for music and other audio. It also offers a system for detecting and labeling fully AI-generated tracks. Official site
  • Easol (United Kingdom; global service): A platform for festival and experience businesses to manage websites, bookings, payments, marketing and guest data. Its Teammates AI agents assist with sales, guest support and operational workflows. Official site
  • ElevenLabs (Eleven Music): ElevenLabs’ music-generation model for creating full tracks from natural-language prompts, including vocals and lyrics. ElevenLabs says Eleven Music was developed with artists, labels, and publishers and is cleared for broad commercial use under its terms. Official site
  • Eros Innovation (Isle of Man; international operations): A technology and entertainment company developing AI models, creator platforms and film, music and immersive experiences. Its Eros Imagination business combines AI-assisted production, visual effects and digital-performance technology. Official site
  • GasLab: A generative music platform developing consent-based training, attribution and revenue sharing for participating artists and rights holders. It is opening access in stages; its geographic service scope is not specified. Official site
  • Genie Music (South Korea): A South Korean music-streaming service offering music listening, recommendations and charts. Official site
  • GRAI: An AI music technology company developing a social music streaming platform with AI-powered discovery and creative features, alongside a music foundation model. Its approach includes licensing music for streaming and separately licensing approved datasets for AI training. Official site
  • Klangio: A music-transcription software company offering AI tools that turn audio into sheet music, tablature, MIDI and MusicXML. Official site
  • MassiveMusic: A music services company within Songtradr providing music licensing, sonic branding, music supervision, catalog services, metadata and rights management solutions for brands and digital platforms. Official site
  • Melon (South Korea): A South Korean digital music platform offering streaming, personalized recommendations and music charts, including its Top 100. Official site
  • Melox.ai (formerly MakeBestMusic): An AI music-creation platform for generating full tracks from prompts or lyrics, with additional tools such as voice covers, stem separation, and MIDI generation. Official site
  • MiniMax Music: MiniMax’s music-generation model family, which can create complete songs from creative prompts and optional lyrics. Official site
  • Moises: Music practice and production software offering AI-assisted tools for separating vocals and instruments, detecting chords and lyrics, and mixing and mastering recordings. Official site
  • Musical AI (base not specified): A technology company providing consent and attribution infrastructure for generative AI, connecting generated outputs with source works. It is not a collecting society. Official site
  • Neural Frames: An AI music-video creation platform that generates audio-reactive visuals and offers tools for synchronizing and editing videos to music. Official site
  • Neutune (South Korea): A South Korean music technology company developing component-level attribution and provenance tools for AI-generated, human-made and hybrid music, including musicDNA. Its geographic service scope is not specified. Official site
  • Pozalabs (South Korea): A South Korean AI music technology company developing music-generation models and services, including AI-assisted composition and custom music production for businesses and creators. Official site
  • SONAR (Australia): A Sydney-based music and sound studio providing original composition, sound design and sonic branding for film, television, advertising and other media. Official site
  • Soneium: A blockchain network supporting entertainment applications, digital rights records and programmable licensing and payments. Availability of individual services depends on their terms and eligibility requirements; geographic service scope is not specified here. Official site
  • Sonilo (base not specified): A service generating music and sound effects from video, text, or both. Official site
  • Spotify (Global): An audio-streaming service offering music, podcasts and audiobooks in supported markets. Official site
  • Stability AI (Stable Audio): Stability AI’s generative audio model family for creating music and sound effects from text prompts, with audio editing capabilities. Official site
  • Suno: A generative AI music platform that turns text prompts into complete songs, including vocals and lyrics. Official site
  • Udio: A generative AI music platform that creates songs from prompts and supports extending and editing tracks. Official site
  • Wavelab: An innovation lab and entrepreneurship center for music, arts and media, offering an incubator program, workshops, events and networking for creative startups. Official site
  • YouTube Music (Multi-territory): YouTube’s music-streaming service for songs, albums, playlists and music videos. It offers listeners information about significant generative-AI use in labeled recordings. Official site

Music Industry Organizations

  • AFM (United States and Canada): American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada. A labor union representing professional musicians. It negotiates collective bargaining agreements covering pay, working conditions and benefits, and advocates for musicians’ rights, including consent, credit and compensation for AI uses of their work. Official site
  • AGCM (Italy): Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato (Italian Competition and Market Authority). Italy’s general competition and consumer-protection regulator. It does not license music rights or distribute music royalties.
  • APRA AMCOS (Australia and New Zealand): Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS). APRA administers performing and communication rights in musical works; AMCOS administers mechanical/reproduction rights. They license relevant uses, collect fees and distribute royalties to represented songwriters, composers and publishers.
  • ARIA (Australia): Australian Recording Industry Association. Represents Australia’s recording industry and its members. It is an industry association, not a music-rights licensing or royalty-distribution society.
  • BIEM (International): Bureau International de l’Édition Mécanique. Represents national mechanical-rights societies internationally; those member societies license mechanical uses and collect and distribute royalties in their territories.
  • CISAC (Global): International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers. A global network of authors’ societies and collective management organizations. Its member societies—not CISAC itself—typically license works, collect royalties and pay represented creators and publishers.
  • CRB (United States): Copyright Royalty Board. The U.S. Copyright Royalty Judges establish rates and terms for certain statutory copyright licenses, including eligible interactive-streaming mechanical royalties. Official site
  • DDEX (Global): Digital Data Exchange. A not-for-profit standards organization developing formats for exchanging music metadata, including release, rights and usage information. It sets technical standards rather than licensing music rights or distributing royalties. Official site
  • European Commission (European Union; Brussels, Belgium): The European Union’s executive institution. Proposes legislation, implements EU policies and helps enforce EU law. It is not a music-rights licensing or royalty-collection society. Official site
  • IFPI (Global): International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Represents the recorded-music industry and record companies worldwide. It advocates for the industry and supports rights protection; it is not a collecting society that pays recording royalties to artists.
  • IMPEL (Multi-territory; UK-based): Independent Music Publishers’ E-Licensing. A publisher-owned licensing and administration hub for members’ digital music-publishing rights. It licenses member repertoire for online uses across multiple territories and administers resulting revenue for publisher members; publishers account to their songwriters under their agreements.
  • IMPF (International): Independent Music Publishers International Forum. Represents and provides a forum for independent music publishers worldwide. It is a trade organization, not a licensing or royalty-collection society.
  • JASRAC (Japan): Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers. A collective management organization that administers rights entrusted by its members, including relevant performance, communication and mechanical rights. It licenses uses, collects fees and distributes royalties to represented authors, composers and publishers.
  • Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence (Australia): An Australian parliamentary committee examining artificial intelligence and reporting to Parliament. It does not license music rights or distribute royalties. Official site
  • KOMCA (South Korea): Korea Music Copyright Association. A collective management organization administering entrusted rights in musical works. It licenses relevant uses, collects fees and distributes royalties to represented songwriters, composers and publishers; it does not administer every right in a sound recording. Official site
  • Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (South Korea): South Korea’s government ministry responsible for cultural, sports and tourism policy, including copyright policy. It is not a music-rights collecting society. Official site
  • NMPA (United States): National Music Publishers’ Association. Represents music publishers in U.S. policy advocacy and statutory royalty proceedings. It is a trade association rather than a royalty collection society. Official site
  • NSAI (United States; international membership): Nashville Songwriters Association International. A not-for-profit songwriters trade association providing advocacy and support for developing and professional songwriters. Official site
  • PPCA (Australia): Phonographic Performance Company of Australia. A non-profit collecting society that provides blanket licences for specified uses of recorded music. It distributes licensing revenue to registered recording rightsholders, such as labels, and registered artists.
  • PPL (United Kingdom): Phonographic Performance Limited. Licenses specified public-performance and broadcast uses of recorded music in the UK, then distributes royalties to eligible performers and recording rightsholders.
  • PRS for Music (United Kingdom): Performing Right Society (PRS) and Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS). PRS licenses performance and communication of musical works; MCPS administers mechanical/reproduction rights. They collect fees and distribute royalties to represented songwriters, composers and publishers.
  • SOCAN (Canada): Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada. Licenses public-performance and communication uses of musical works and distributes collected royalties to represented songwriters, composers and publishers. Do not imply that SOCAN administers every type of music right.
  • Symphonic Distribution (United States; headquartered in Tampa, Florida): This is the company’s full name, not an acronym. It provides digital distribution, royalty accounting and collection, and publishing administration to clients under their service agreements. It pays clients according to those agreements and maintains policies for AI-generated releases; it is not a collective music-rights society.
  • TAS Rights Management (base not specified): Taylor Swift’s company that applies for trademarks associated with her name, phrases and other brand elements. It is not a collective music-rights society.
  • The MLC (United States): The Mechanical Licensing Collective. Administers the U.S. blanket mechanical license for eligible digital music providers. Those services pay the MLC for covered uses of musical works; the MLC matches and distributes mechanical royalties to registered songwriters, publishers and administrators.

Legislation

  • ELVIS Act (Tennessee, United States): The Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2024. Expands Tennessee’s personal-rights protections to cover a person’s voice, including certain unauthorized AI replicas; protections and exceptions depend on the statute. Official site
  • NO FAKES Act (United States; proposed legislation): The Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act. A federal proposal addressing unauthorized digital replicas of people’s voices and visual likenesses. A proposed bill is not enacted law. Official site

Other

  • Amedia (Norway): A Norwegian media group publishing local, regional and national editorial news products. Official site
  • Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association — MBL (Norway): An industry association representing Norwegian media businesses and advocating on their business and policy interests. Official site
  • NRK (Norway): Norway’s public-service broadcaster, providing radio, television and online programming. Official site
  • Schibsted (Norway and Sweden): A media group publishing news and other editorial products through brands in Norway and Sweden. Official site
  • Triton Digital (Global): A provider of advertising, distribution and measurement technology for audio publishers, including radio, podcasts and online music services. Official site
  • TV 2 (Norway): A Norwegian commercial broadcaster providing television and online programming. Official site