The seminars focused on equipping creators with valuable knowledge and safe directions for the future, covering essential topics such as the need for AI transparency in music credits, protection against unauthorized voice clones, and the importance of safeguarding moral and long-term intellectual property rights.
The all-day event, which took place on Wednesday, April 22, at ATRAKTO, attracted a large number of creators, producers, students, professors and music technology students who actively participated in the discussion that followed. The major challenges of GenAI for human creativity and abusive buyout contracts in AV productions were two of the critical topics that were developed.
The contribution of AUTODIA’s experienced executives, Christina Mergoupi (Head of Mechanical Rights, Synchro & Private Copy), Zoe Mavroskoti (Dr. Juris, International Legal Affairs), Ilianna Antoniou (Director of Communications), Stathis Pantzi (Head of Online Media) and Antonis Stavrinoudakis, as well as the creators who gave their personal testimony, such as Phoebus, Manos Dedevesis and Vangelis Fampas, was invaluable.
The composer and producer Phoebus pointed out that “AI, in the way it operates today, without a clear legal framework, without transparency and control, without creators' consent and without even a basic remuneration for the use of their works, becomes extremely competitive and dangerous for the creator.”
For his part, the composer, producer and publisher Manos Dedevesis stated that AI has entered our lives for good, so we need to educate ourselves, understand it and create a code of ethics. He emphasized that AI does not replace authentic narration and prosody, that is, human meter, language and expression. It reproduces information, but not knowledge, which is only transferred experientially between people who feel emotions.
Regarding buy-outs, the composer, producer and publisher Vangelis Fampas emphasized the need to protect the moral right and all acquired rights of creators, as well as the long-term value of intellectual property in the digital age.
Particularly interesting were the presentations by Commercial Director Ioannis Gkiokas, regarding Public Performance rights, Head of Concerts Nagia Katsouli on Live Events, and Head of Broadcasting Dimitris Varouxis on rights from digital terrestrial broadcasting. In his opening remarks, the BoD Chairman Yiannis Glezos stated that “without the necessary tools and the guidance of experts from his/her Organization, a new creator navigates almost blindly in this fragmented market, with a legal framework that remains vague and weak.”
The CEO Margarita Panagiotopoulou pointed out that “our Society’s goal is to provide high-level, quality services to our members, with the aim of training and better understanding their rights through new technology as it evolves over time.”
Finally, the Director of Digital Strategy and Business Development George Stampolis emphasized that knowledge is power and that these seminars equip the creator with valuable, useful information and provide safe directions for his future.
All the competent Departments of the Organization collaborated for this successful event with the goal of establishing AUTODIA LABS as an institution for authors' rights. AUTODIA constantly upgrades its services to its members, with its primary concern to serve the interests of its creators & rightsholders, in Greece and abroad, with reliability, transparency and accountability.