Picture Credit score: .MUSIC
The .MUSIC registry has introduced the launch of the top-level .music area identify and its verified MusicID.
Members of the music business can now register .music domains on a primary come, first serve foundation. The area is designed to offer verified digital identities for music artists, creators, songwriters, business professionals, organizations, and types.
The registration and use of .music domains is unique to verified members of the worldwide music group. The transfer comes because the business is worried about non-consensual AI deep fakes, voice cloning, and the unauthorized use of the music group’s mental property. In that soup, the .music area might followers simply establish music or content material created by actual authenticated people.
“For the primary time in music historical past, the worldwide music business will be capable of register their distinctive .music identify and verified digital music identification,” Constantine Roussos, CEO of .MUSIC instructed Digital Music Information. “The .music area and its related MusicID will present a trusted, safe, and genuine music-centric web the place the worldwide music group can safely join, have interaction, transact, and thrive.”
“The .music launch marks a pivotal second for the music business to reclaim management of their digital footprint,” provides Marina Roussou, Government Director of id.MUSIC, the unique music identification supplier for .MUSIC. “By providing verified MusicIDs, we’re giving the worldwide music group the power to safe their digital identification, shield their artistic works, and be certain that their presence on-line is genuine and safeguarded from impersonation, fraud, and AI misuse.”
id.MUSIC is the unique music identification supplier (IDP) for the .MUSIC top-level area identify. It supplies verified .music domains and international MusicID that protects music identify, picture, likeness, and voice mental property rights. The corporate says that by mandating identification verification for .music registrants, all .music digital music identities are protected against impersonators, fraudsters, AI clones, bots, and cyber squatters.
The .MUSIC initiative is supported by a considerable worldwide music coalition. Based on an estimate from .MUSIC, this coalition represents over 95% of world music consumed.
The checklist of supporting orgs consists of the RIAA, CISAC, IFPI, NMPA, Recording Academy, A2IM, Worldwide Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP), Unbiased Music Publishers Worldwide Discussion board (IMPF), Worldwide Federation of Musicians (FIM), Worldwide Music Council (IMC), Worldwide Music Managers Discussion board (IMMF), and Music Managers Discussion board–US (MMF-US).
“As a website for the worldwide music group, accessible solely to verified artists, corporations and organizations lively within the music ecosystem, .MUSIC will likely be a worthwhile device, strengthening belief and assuring authenticity,” provides Victoria Oakley, the CEO of the Worldwide Federation of the Phonographic Business (IFPI). “IFPI have been longstanding supporters of this initiative.”
“The .MUSIC area is launching at a significant time for the music business. The NMPA applauds this bold initiative and the protections it provides creators who face evolving threats to authenticity from AI,” says David Israelite, President and CEO of the Nationwide Music Publishers’ Affiliation (NMPA) representing American music publishers and their songwriting companions.
“The Recording Academy is thrilled to proceed our assist of the .MUSIC initiative, particularly throughout a time of such immense evolution of our business the place it has by no means been extra necessary to guard human creativity. From its inception, the mission has sought to offer a secure and dependable digital area for music creators, and it’ll foster extra belief and safety for our whole music ecosystem,” says Harvey Mason Jr., CEO of the Recording Academy.
“A2IM has supported the .MUSIC initiative from the outset, and we’re thrilled to see it develop into a actuality. This area fosters belief, connection, and reliability throughout the international music group. It’s going to create a secure, modern ecosystem that advantages artists, labels, and music customers alike, fulfilling our shared imaginative and prescient for a stronger, extra unified business,” says Dr. Richard James Burgess, the President and CEO of the American Affiliation of Unbiased Music (A2IM) representing the collective voice of unbiased music.
