SAG-AFTRA Members Unanimously Ratify Major Label AI Protection Agreement Involving UMG, WMG, Sony Music, and Disney Music

Members of SAG-AFTRA voted all to validate the 2024 Sound Recordings Code with the leading record labels, authorizing a brand-new agreement with groundbreaking AI securities and a compounded wage boost.

The nationwide ballot was finished on April 30, with members of SAG-AFTRA ballot 97.69% in favor of validating the 2024 Sound Recordings Code with the significant labels– Warner Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Disney Music Group, and the majority of their subsidiary labels. The brand-new agreement covers the duration from January 1, 2021, through December 31, 2026.

At the core of the brand-new agreement are the expert system guardrails, which work instantly. Under this arrangement, the terms “artist,” “vocalist,” and “royalty artist” just consist of human beings, with “clear and obvious authorization” together with minimum payment requirements and particular information of desired usage needed prior to the release of a sound recording that utilizes a digital duplication of an artist’s voice

Other modifications consist of increased minimums, with an intensified overall wage boost of 26.3% over the term. It consists of health and retirement enhancements like a basic contribution rate boost and a boost in the portion of streaming earnings to be covered by contributions, which will reach 100% at term’s end on December 31, 2026.

“Singers and recording artists have an extensive influence on our culture, and I’m delighted that they’ve attained an agreement that not just acknowledges their worth with considerable wage boosts, however likewise offers them vital securities around expert system,” stated SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher. “We commemorate our human entertainers! I praise the working out committee and personnel, the record label, and SAG-AFTRA members for getting this agreement throughout the goal.”

“This agreement protects groundbreaking AI guardrails while likewise attaining important and considerable wage boosts, and other crucial wins for vocalists and recording artists,” included SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director & & Chief Negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland

“Protecting human artistry will constantly be SAG-AFTRA’s top priority, and I’m heartened that our members have an agreement that offers instant gains and acknowledges the value of human contributions to the market,” Crabtree-Ireland continued. “I likewise wish to acknowledge Negotiating Committee Chair Dan Navarro and the whole committee and personnel for their impressive and devoted operate in attaining this contract.”

Noise Recordings Code Negotiating Committee Chair Dan Navarro concluded: “Members’ feedback played an essential function in the development of this agreement and the working out committee focused on the issues that were most essential to the vocalists and recording artists affected by these terms. We’re happy to have actually accomplished these necessary wins in AI securities, in addition to considerable wage boosts and gains in health and retirement financing.”