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On 30 September 2026, IMPF and IMPEL proposed principles for generative-AI music licensing. They distinguish payments for past uses, training, generated outputs and future exploitation, and call for rightsholder involvement in scope and valuation. This is an industry negotiating framework, not a concluded collective licence or a statutory tariff.
View full image ↗Title area of page 1 of the IMPF and IMPEL joint statement, 30 September 2026. Cropped from the original PDF; lettering is unchanged.
IMPF / IMPEL; official original document
Source · Joint Statement: IMPEL and IMPF on Fair Licensing for Generative AI ↗Both pages of the official joint statement were read. This is an archive summary, not a full-text reproduction. Attribution technology and subsequent implementation have not been independently tested. Discovered and catalogued on 1 October 2026; event dated 30 September 2026. Translation is AI-assisted and awaits independent human review.
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IMPF and IMPEL publish principles for fair generative-AI licensing
On 30 September 2026, IMPF and IMPEL proposed principles for generative-AI music licensing. They distinguish payments for past uses, training, generated outputs and future exploitation, and call for rightsholder involvement in scope and valuation. This is an industry negotiating framework, not a concluded collective licence or a statutory tariff.
Research question
Editorial interpretation: the statement translates objections to unlicensed training into questions of allocation among composition rights, recording rights and model commercialisation. It documents how refusal can enter licensing infrastructure, without establishing industry-wide consensus or realised income for artists.
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DOC-U261001-01Joint Statement: IMPEL and IMPF on Fair Licensing for Generative AISources
IMPF / IMPEL · EN · 2026-09-30
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