Tuesday, September 1st, is the extraordinary annual meeting of TONO. It is important that you who have voting rights in TONO attend, either physically or digitally. If you are new to the annual meeting, we also offer a simple introduction before the meeting starts.
On Thursday, August 6th at 4:00 PM, TONO invites you to a feedback meeting on proposed changes to the statutes related to advance voting, cultural funds and TONO's board composition. The meeting can be followed digitally at tono.meetando.no without logging in or registering.
The German copyright society GEMA has won its lawsuit against Suno, a company that allows users to generate music with artificial intelligence. The ruling states that Suno has infringed copyright by using copyrighted music without a license.
After the annual meeting on June 9, there has been some noise in TONO, and we on the board have worked quickly and purposefully to try to gather the breadth of what together constitutes TONO. At the board meeting in June, we decided to call an extraordinary annual meeting on September 1, and to temporarily reduce the level of cultural contributions, while a new and better-established model is developed.
On August 6th at 16 pm, TONO will hold a feedback meeting for all members, and at the same time invites everyone to submit written feedback until August 11th.
The Atlantic recently published databases of millions of works used to train artificial intelligence. We brought together TONO Chairman Tom Hugo Hermansen and TONO Legal Officer and Department Director Inger Elise Mey for a conversation about copyright, technology, and what's at stake for music creators.
As a six-year-old, he stood in front of his mother's cassette player with earphones and sang self-composed songs. Now he will fight for and together with the TONO members to increase the value of music and those who make it, in the face of artificial intelligence, a more confusing rights picture and foreign actors. At the annual meeting on June 9 this year, Tom Hugo Hermansen was elected as the new chairman of Tono.
TONO has now paid out NOK 32,1 million in compensation for the use of music in streaming services. The payment was announced to be postponed after the June settlement due to delayed reports from our then subcontractor, Network of Music Partners (NMP).
TONO believes that artificial intelligence cannot build new business models on copyrighted music without the creators knowing about it, being able to license it and getting paid for it. That is the core message when TONO now asks the EU Commission to change European copyright.
When Norway qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 56 years, Torstein Flakne and Ivar Dyrhaug wrote a song to capture the pride, hope and community of the moment. Decades later, "Alt for Norge" still lives on as one of the country's most beloved football anthems.