EDEL SE & Co. KGaA Statement regarding AI

Responsibly produced AI tools have significant potential for the music, book, and entertainment sector. The rights of all those involved in creating and distributing music must be respected and licensed specifically in advance.

Without prejudice to any prior rights reservations, EDEL SE & Co. KGaA hereby expressly reaffirms that its rights are fully reserved as set out below. We reaffirm that:

– Any past, present or future use of any of the works or content owned or controlled by EDEL SE & Co. KGaA (including recordings, audiovisual recordings, compositions, lyrics, artwork, images, data, metadata, texts, films, trailers, radio plays, copyrighted material etc.) for the purpose of reproducing, performing, distributing, linking to or ingesting, machine learning or any AI training, development or commercialisation of AI systems, tools or technology, web scraping, ripping, recording, altering, making extracts or derivatives, crawling, text or data mining or similar purposes, and by any means (including by automated means), is prohibited, except as specifically and explicitly authorised by EDEL SE & Co. KGaA in advance.

– In the absence of an express advance license permitting the above uses, we expressly reserve our rights in respect of the use of EDEL SE & Co. KGaA’s content, including without limitation under Article 4 of the EU Directive 2019/70/EC or similar laws in other jurisdictions (to the extent that this Article would apply to the above uses, an interpretation we do not agree with). Our reservation applies to all content owned or controlled by EDEL SE & Co. KGaA, now or in the future, including where this content may be identified through publicly available means.

We will take the necessary steps to prevent the infringement of our rights.

Please contact us as regards any licensing requests info@edel.com.