OpenMusE: Towards a Sustainable Licensing Market for AI Use of Protected Works

European Committee Meeting Vilnius, Lithuania 29-30 April 2025 OpenMusE About OME Acronym: OpenMusE Title: Open Music Europe (OpenMusE) –an open, scalable data-topolicy pipeline for European music ecosystems Duration: 36 months (2023-2025) 1. TOPIC: HORIZON-CL2-2022-HERITAGE-01-05 Funded by the European Union under Grant No. 101095295. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission’s Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. About OME Consortium: •SINUS MARKTUND SOZIALFORSCHUNG GMBH - Germany •TURUN YLIOPISTO - Finland •UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM - Netherlands •SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA - Italy •EKONOMICKA UNIVERZITA V BRATISLAVE - Slovakia •SYNYO - Austria •REPREX B.V. - Reprex •MUSIC INNOVATION HUB SPA IMPRESA SOCIALE - Italy •SOZA - Slovakia •ALOADED AB - Sweden •MUSIC EXPORT UKRAINE -Ukraine •VIESOJI ISTAIGA MUZIKOS EKSPORTO FONDAS - Lithuania •ARTISJUS - Hungary •MUSICAUTOR - Bulgaria •HEARDIS! - Germany Information about OME Project Idea and Objectives Open Music Europe addresses structural problems of music industry with scientifically advanced, market-oriented solutions. It brings together music industry stakeholders and researchers and wants to support the European music industry in becoming: •More competitive: we develop more accurate ways to transparently measure the value of music and its use quantity in live and recorded performances, and other musical activities. •Fairer: we identify cases in which music industry professionals are compensated fairly compared to the benefits of music, and call out cases of negative biases and discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, and other unjustified inequality. •More sustainable: we offer tools that small enterprises can use to measure their environmental, social, and governance sustainability. •More transparent: we ensure that the way big data is used in the sector –and the way algorithms recommend music –remain fair and accountable for everyone. EUROPEAN MUSIC OBSERVATORY Imagine a European Music Observatory that helps us solving OUR challenges Identifies nearly 40 data gaps that burden both policy work and music business operations. These include data that are: -Scarce - the amount of available data is insufficient) -Fragmented - data has to be collected from numerous different sources) -Hidden - data might well exist, but cannot be found -Restricted - the data cannot be accessed due to technical or IP barriers -Unharmonised - the accessed data needs extensive and resource-intense preprocessing We have demonstrated that many of these gaps can be filled through open data reuse, cross-stakeholder data sharing, improved surveying, harmonisation, and other novel methods. Sustainability 1. Why online platforms do not recommend music from Slovakia in Slovakia for Slovak people? 2. How can we avoid that small repertoires lose their original market, their only market? Findings 1. Small repertoires have very low-quality data representation 2. Because of low income, data improvement and documentation must not be expensive 3. Public-Private Partnership is needed to solve data problems Opposite of Success, Opposite of Good Metadata 1. It is often hard to say what would be a perfect metadata, or what we want to do with the data. 2. We started with the nightmare scenario: that a new release ends of on Forgotify, a funny service that plays songs which had never been played on Spotify. 3. We realised that many songs, often locally well-known records, end up here with wrong data, because recommender systems place them on the wrong shelf and recommend them to an inappropriate audience. Case Study: Fixing Metadata Through Cooperation not Duplication Data sharing and exchange in the Slovak music data sharing space We are piloting the Open Music Observatory approach in Slovakia on a large scale 1. Data enrichment Reprex consolidates the data Excel, CSV, SQL and other database (data file) formats of SOZA, Slovak Music Centre, Music Fund, and other organisations into a graph format. We assist curators to find and improve errors in their metadata. We ensure that the resulting data is more usable for rights management, heritage management, publishing. 2. Data dissemination We send the enriched and proprietary (confidential) data to the systems of SOZA, Slovak Music Centre, Music Fund or other participants. We sent the public data to the EU Open Data Portal (statistical data), to EOSC (data of scientific value), collections data (Europeana and ECCH), and biographical and repertoire data to Wikidata and Wikipedia. This way DSPs can use reliable data about Slovak music. Data sharing and exchange in the Slovak music data sharing space Local content regulation Help radio stations to comply with legal local content quotas. Data health checks Ensure that streaming services can recommend the music and pay out rightsholders Improve recommendations Music info centre sends authoritative repertoire data Improve statistics Satellite business register coordination for better surveys of music Integrate libraries Enable search in libraries and archives, locate printed music and records for public lending Printed music Increase the availability of printed music via webshops and library access VISION 2026+ Interoperability of Services Open Music Data Exchange Forum •Until 31 December 2025 the building of the Open Music Observatory is funded by the EU grant for the OpenMusE project. •We envision a Europeanalike model (see chart),which is maintained by Europe’s national libraries and museums. •We would like to maintain it afterwards with ownership from the industry and data owners. •CISAC could play a defining role in this process and its members reap most of the benefits. Open Music Data Exchange Forum THANK YOU ! Contact: Tomáš Mikš [email protected]