News and Press Releases

Global creators’ royalties up 7.6% to new high of EUR13.1 billion in 2023

CISAC Global Collections Report 2024

Thursday, 24 October 2024

Global royalties for music creators reach €11.7 billion. Full recovery for live concerts and public performance. Digital royalties surpass TV and radio in revenue. Urgent need for a proper framework for AI.

Award for AUTODIA's new portal at UX | CX Awards Ceremony 2024!

Friday, 13 September 2024

Our new innovative portal my.autodia.gr, implemented by Indice and Qualco, received a distinction during the UX | CX Awards Ceremony 2024 that took place yesterday, Thursday, September 12, at Anais Club. AUTODIA won the Bronze Award in the category "Best B2B Experience", where effective and innovative initiatives related to the entire range of interface in Business-to-Business transactions are awarded.

Joint letter to Members of the European Parliament on the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the European creative community

Tuesday, 30 July 2024

"All generative AI models in existence today have been trained secretly on enormous amounts of copyright-protected content and personal data which have been scraped and copied from the internet, without any authorisation nor any remuneration for the creators we represent".

AUTODIA distributes royalties of more than 9.6 million euros for the 1H 2024

Ordinary General Assembly was successfully completed

Friday, 19 July 2024

AUTODIA, faithful to its commitments to the steady increase of royalties and the effective management and protection of the musical works of creators, announces the Distribution of the 1st Half 2024, with a total gross amount of 9,619,635 euros.

European Day - 9th May 2024

Thursday, 09 May 2024

On the occasion of Europe Day, GESAC, representing more than 1 million authors and creators from all artistic fields through its members, the authors’ societies, would like to express its gratitude to the outgoing European Parliament for the unwavering support given to strengthening authors’ rights and cultural diversity during its last 5-year mandate.

Greek CMOs Joint Announcement on the new Law 5103/2024 (A΄57) of the Ministry of Culture

Monday, 22 April 2024

Greek composers, lyricists, musical performers, singers and recording producers welcome the new law passed in the Parliament.

Collective Agreement with the Panhellenic Federation of Cretan Cultural Associations

Thursday, 28 March 2024

The agreement, lasting five years, comes to regulate the royalties for the represented repertoire of the Organisation, regarding in general the cultural events that have taken place or will take place in open or closed spaces, in the period from 2023 to 2027.

AUTODIA Statement on Artificial Intelligence

Transparency in the use of musical works and respect for European legislation of authors’ rights in all GPAI models

Monday, 08 January 2024

AUTODIA believes in transparency in the use of musical works and respect for European legislation of authors’ rights in all GPAI models

AUTODIA distributes royalties of 10,000,000 euros to members and sister societies

Tuesday, 19 December 2023

AUTODIA, making good on its commitment to distribute even higher amount of royalties to its members, is pleased to announce its Distribution 2023S2.

CISAC President and Director General at AUTODIA's office

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

On Tuesday, October 10th, we had the honor and pleasure to welcome to our offices the President of CISAC, songwriter and producer, member of the legendary ABBA, Bjorn Ulvaeus.

Announcement: Significant court Decision - Vindication of AUTODIA

Wednesday, 20 September 2023

On September 15, 2023, the decision no.14278/2023 of the Administrative Court of Athens was issued, on an appeal by AUTODIA against a ministerial decision, following a recommendation by OPI (Hellenic Copyright Organization),

Press Release: AUTODIA distributes over €7m in royalties

Friday, 21 July 2023

From Monday July 10th, Greek composers, songwriters, authors, and publishers, as well as sister societies of AUTODIA, gradually began to receive their distribution reports of over €7m in total, regarding the usages of their works in both Greek territory and abroad.