Fair MusE at ALAI 2025: Giuseppe Mazziotti Joins Key Session on Streaming and Rights Transfers

Founded in 1878 by Victor Hugo, ALAI (Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale) is among the most respected organisations dedicated to the study and advancement of authors’ rights. Its annual congresses have historically shaped international instruments and continue to provide a leading platform for scholarly and policy debate.

Organised by the Croatian and Hungarian national groups of ALAI’s global network, this year’s conference will take place in Opatija, Croatia, on 9–10 October. The conference has an evocative title – “140 Years Later – Looking Ahead: Whose Right is Copyright?  – encouraging scholars, legal practitioners and authors’ rights advocates to go back to the origin of this discipline and to a human-centred approach at a time copyright law is deeply challenged by digital technologies and artificial intelligence.

On 10 October, Prof. Mazziotti will bring Fair Muse to the heart of the conference’s fifth session, titled “Streaming, transfer of rights, and the management of large catalogues”. As Rapporteur, he will present and summarise the key findings of national reports from all over the world. This panel will convene leading international experts to address some of the most complex and timely issues in the field of today’s copyright, including the definition of rights ownership, transferability regimes, and the management of authors’ and related rights from a comparative perspective. 

All these issues are closely aligned with the legal analyses carried out within the Fair MusE project, especially in the domain of EU copyright law. This participation highlights the relevance of Fair MusE’s research to ongoing international discussions on copyright and rights management in the music ecosystem, and reinforces the project’s engagement with the future of authors’ and neighbouring rights in Europe and at a global scale.

*Photo by Vladimir Srajber.