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\n Published on 09\/09\/2025 – 13:00 GMT+2
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A Swedish music rights society says it has signed the world\u2019s first licensing agreement with an artificial intelligence company (AI).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Swedish Performing Rights Society (STIM) said it signed the agreement with Songfox, a Stockholm-based start-up that lets fans and creators legally produce AI-generated compositions, on behalf of the group\u2019s 100,000 artists.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Under the deal, Songfox will use a third-party attribution technology called Sureel to trace any AI outputs back to the original human-created work so the artists can get revenue from it.<\/p>\n
This agreement \u201cmakes revenues auditable in real time and addresses one of the greatest trust gaps in AI music: the lack of transparency over what data is used and how creators are compensated,\u201d STIM said in a statement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Simon Gozzi, STIM’s Head of Business Development and Industry Insight, told Euronews Next that AI firms will pay through a “mix of licensing fees and revenue shares”. Artists will also receive an “upfront value” when works are used for training. <\/p>\n
The idea is “the more demand an AI service creates, the larger the returns for rights holders,” Gozzi said. <\/p>\n
This first agreement is a \u201cstress-test\u201d for what the association said should eventually be a market-based model that \u201csecures fair compensation and equal terms of competition.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We definitely believe this is the start of something bigger,” Gozzi said. “By showing attribution and ring-fencing of AI revenues in practice, we aim to give Europe a blueprint that others can adopt\u2014making this a global standard over time”. <\/p>\n
AI could strip away almost a quarter of music creators\u2019 revenue in the next three years, according to a study<\/a>.<\/p>\n What is going on elsewhere in Europe for artists affected by AI?<\/p>\n