News and Press Releases

European landmark ruling on AI in favor of creators

The CJEU decision on the GEMA vs OpenAI dispute

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

The Munich Regional Court ruled that OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, violated German copyright laws by using, without permission, hits by commercial artists such as Herbert Groenemeyer, Helene Fischer and other well-known German creators, to train its language models.

CISAC: Global Collections Report 2025

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

CISAC presented its Global Collections Report 2025, with impressive results for 2024: global royalty collections for creators reached €13.97 billion, an increase of 6.6% and marking the ninth consecutive year of growth. Creative work remains consistently valuable and resilient, even in a rapidly changing environment.

AUTODIA: Strategic partnership with ICMP and IMPF

AUTODIA's continuous support for creators

Tuesday, 11 November 2025

AUTODIA is launching a new strategic partnership with two global music publisher representation bodies, the ICMP (International Confederation of Music Publishers) and the IMPF (Independent Music Publishers International Forum).

Visit of AUTODIA’s delegation to MESAM

Turkey, MESAM

Tuesday, 07 October 2025

The AUTODIA’s delegation, including BoD Chairman Yiannis Glezos, CEO Dr. Margarita Panagiotopoulou, CIO Manolis Dimitriadis, and Director of Digital Strategy & Business Development George Stampolis, recently visited the contracted CMO MESAM in Turkey.

Study: Artificial Intelligence and Spanish creators

Loss of €100 million in revenue in 2028 alone from AI

Tuesday, 07 October 2025

The findings of the study, entitled “The economic and social impact of AI on music creation and its effects on other cultural fields” were published by the Spanish Collective Management Organization SGAE, which was carried out in collaboration with the company Know Media and the Carlos III University of Madrid. 

ALCO SURVEY : "Musical works by human creators are more valuable than those by AI."

The results of a public opinion survey

Thursday, 25 September 2025

AUTODIA has published the results of a public opinion survey conducted in collaboration with ALCO. Greek opinion calls for the introduction of labeling in AI products and supports music authors' remuneration for the use of their works by AI models - 94% consider the role of composers and lyricists to be important. 

GenAI could cost Danish music industry €921 million by 2030 - unless political action is taken

New Report

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

The consequences of the rapid development of artificial intelligence for the Danish music industry have now been mapped in a new report. Emerging AI services capable of generating complete music tracks from simple prompts are poised to consume large portions of the economy that currently sustains professional musicians. 

Only entities authorized by the Ministry of Culture may collect copyright and related rights

Announcement by the Hellenic Copyright Organization (HCO)

Saturday, 20 September 2025

According to a recent announcement by the Hellenic Copyright Organization (HCO) - https://opi.gr/wp-content/uploads/08_09_2025.pdf - entities without the necessary authorization from the Ministry of Culture do not have the right to manage the intellectual property rights and related rights of creators and performers, nor to issue licenses for public performance of music in restaurants, cafes, and other businesses in Greece.

“The Lyricist Mikis Theodorakis – 100 Years Since His Birth”

Great public response to the China tour supported by AUTODIA

Thursday, 18 September 2025

The tour “The Lyricist Mikis Theodorakis – 100 Years Since His Birth” was completed with great success, a musical mission that traveled from Greece to China, transferring the pulse, emotion and vision of the great Greek composer to three iconic cities: Shanghai, Beijing and Nanchang.

AUTODIA joins its voice with creators and rightsholders on EU AI Act implementation measures

EU AI ACT

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

AUTODIA joins its voice with a broad coalition of creators and rightsholders active across the EU’s cultural and creative sectors regarding the AI Act implementation measures adopted by the European Commission

AUTODIA: Royalties over €11M to creators & rightsholders

Total revenue 2018-2024: €98M

Tuesday, 08 July 2025

With the Distribution July 2025 (2025S1), AUTODIA will distribute a total of approximately €11.4M in gross royalties for H1 2025 to its members – composers, songwriters, authors and music publishers – as well as to sister societies. 

AUTODIA voting member of BIEM

AUTODIA’s position has been upgraded with immediate effect

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

By decision of the BIEM General Assembly on 27/5, the Greek society became Voting Member of the international organization. The AUTODIA BoD Chairman, Yiannis Glezos, stated that this development constitutes an excellent opportunity for the Society to extend its cooperation with all CMOs of mechanical rights in the world, as well as to strengthen Mechanical Rights in the territory of Greece.