Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-000733/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Catherine Griset (PfE)
Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence will allow well-trained AI to create music for public consumption.
The EU wants to ensure fair remuneration for cultural and creative professionals, but competition between humans and machines could undermine those efforts.
The legislator must therefore protect artists, without hindering either technological development or creative freedom and free enterprise.
From this point of view, Article 53 of the Artificial Intelligence Act[1] introduces a ‘reservation of rights’ in the area of copyright and related rights, but it is difficult to apply in practice.
Nor will a label to inform people that music has been generated by AI do anything to protect artists.
As for the distribution of broadcasting revenues by the public authority, that will be difficult to tax internationally.
In order to defend the ‘cultural exception’ and safeguard the creation of music by human artists – without hampering the unstoppable march of technology – could the Commission consider quotas for ‘human’ works in the various European music broadcasting markets, even as a precautionary measure?
Submitted: 18.2.2025
- [1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ%3AL_202401689