Open Music Europe Policy & Governance: Feedback to the First Copyright Infrastructure Task Force

This presentation outlines the alignment between three complementary initiatives shaping Europe’s emerging music data ecosystem: the Green Paper on AI, Data Governance, and Metadata Policies for Europe’s Music Ecosystem, the Open Music Observatory (OMO), and the OKM/CITF Report on Interoperable, Trustworthy Copyright Data in the AI Era. Together, these documents articulate a coherent European approach to repairing fragmented music metadata, addressing legacy collections, and ensuring GDPR-compliant attribution for creators. The presentation highlights their shared emphasis on federated data-space architectures rather than centralised databases, applying the European Interoperability Framework across legal, organisational, semantic, and technical layers. National libraries, cultural heritage institutions, and collective management organisations are positioned as essential actors in authority control, identifier administration, and metadata repair. The alignment extends to the use of open, machine-readable identifiers (VIAF, ISNI, ISRC, ISWC) and lightweight ontologies bridging DDEX, DCTERMS, CIDOC-CRM, RiC, and DCAT. Finally, the abstract discusses how high-quality, rights-aware metadata provides a necessary foundation for trustworthy AI, enabling curative and reparative AI approaches while safeguarding the rights of creators, performers, and producers. The Open Music Observatory is presented as a practical demonstrator of these principles, delivering a federated, future-proof data sharing space that can underpin a European-scale music data infrastructure.