Deliverable

This study examines how EU competition law and platform regulation (including the Digital Markets Act) interact to enhance data transparency and promote fair and proportionate remuneration of music creators on online music platforms, assessing the strengths and gaps of current legal frameworks.

Full deliverable. The Fair MusE White Paper synthesises the project's key research findings into concrete policy recommendations for improving fairness in Europe's music ecosystem, addressing copyright regulation, platform transparency, data infrastructure, and the governance of AI and algorithmic systems.

Full deliverable. Inspired by the Nutri-Score model, this deliverable proposes a practical scoring system to assess the fairness of music streaming platforms across five dimensions: data practices, power balance, remuneration, representation, and transparency, with an illustrative application to Spotify.

Full deliverable. This report presents a working demonstrator of a music data dashboard that visualises streaming data to reveal patterns in artist exposure, label dominance, algorithmic behaviour, and market concentration — highlighting the data gaps that hinder fairness assessments in the music sector.

Full deliverable. This document investigates the current fragmented state of music licensing and rights data infrastructure in Europe, identifies structural barriers to transparency and fair remuneration, and proposes the foundations for a shared, interoperable music copyright infrastructure.

Full deliverable. This report analyses the evolving business models of key players in the music ecosystem, including streaming services, major and independent labels, video-sharing platforms, aggregators, and collecting societies — with in-depth case studies of Amazon Music, Apple Music, and SoundCloud.

Full deliverable. Drawing on surveys and in-depth interviews with music industry professionals and artists across Europe, this deliverable explores how different stakeholders understand and experience fairness, covering remuneration models, negotiating power, algorithmic transparency, AI, and the lasting impact of COVID-19.

This study examines how EU law addresses the rights of music creators in the streaming era, analysing copyright liability of social media platforms, the effects on different types of creators, and the governance and licensing practices of collecting societies in online music markets.

Fair MusE submission for the European Commission Call for Evidence

Insights from D4.2

Insights from D4.1

Slideset of the deliverable