IMRO aims to protect its members’ copyrighted content from being used in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) without their explicit consent. Any access, use, reproduction, distribution or exploitation of any copyright-protected musical works and associated literary works or data that we administer (together “Works”), including by web crawling technologies, data scraping or any and all present or future forms of Text and Data Mining (TDM), for AI training without a valid licence breaches the copyright in the Works and denies our songwriter, composer and music publisher members appropriate consideration for their work.
IMRO expressly reserves the right to engage in text and data mining in accordance with the Irish Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000 and article 4 in Directive (EU) 2019/790).
Without lawful access, any unlicensed commercial use or output built on the Works in data or audio or audiovisual form – for example training Large Language Models (LLMs) or Generative AI – breaches the copyright in the Works. Scraping or accessing music online without a license is prohibited.
Consequently, any utilisation of IMRO members’ works for text and data mining requires IMRO’s authorisation, unless otherwise stipulated by law.
There is no legal or moral excuse for the unlicensed access and exploitation of creators’ works for AI training, use or output.
Respect for laws and rights will ensure rapid but responsible innovation, continued investment and a sustainable future for AI tech and creative sectors worldwide.
Requests for the use of works managed by IMRO for text and data mining purposes should be directed to IMRO at membership@nullimro.ie
