BMAT https://www.bmat.com/ Music Innovators Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:26:34 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.bmat.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cropped-bmat-logo-32x32.png BMAT https://www.bmat.com/ 32 32 199482802 First, video killed the radio star, and now AI is going after video: A study on detecting GenAI music in broadcast audio https://www.bmat.com/genai-music-broadcasting/ Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:01:00 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=14282 For the past 20 years, we’ve refined how audio technologies serve the music industry, making them faster, more precise, and more reliable. We invest over €3 million annually in our in-house R&D department, and sharing that work is part of how we show what’s coming next. A new paper from the UPF-BMAT Chair on AI […]

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]]> 14282 The ABCs of Women in Music Technology https://www.bmat.com/women-in-music-technology/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:37:15 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=14313 Human nature has a long memory for machines and a surprisingly short one for the people behind them. We remember the technology, but less often the researchers, engineers, and visionaries, many of them women, who built it. For International Women’s Day and this year’s theme, Give to Gain, we’re highlighting women whose ideas shaped the […]

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]]> 14313 BMAT Expands Collaboration with MCT Thailand to Scale VOD Royalty Processing in APAC https://www.bmat.com/mct-partnership/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:22:26 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=14279 BMAT, a global leader in music technology and rights and royalties data, and MCT, Thailand’s collective management organisation for composers, authors, and music publishers, are expanding their collaboration to enhance structured Video on Demand (VOD) processing across both historical and current data. The extension strengthens the administration of audiovisual royalties in Thailand and across the […]

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]]> 14279 The party we weren’t ready for until now: BMAT turned 20 https://www.bmat.com/bmat-turned-20/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:35:43 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=14204 On an otherwise uneventful Barcelona evening in January 2026, more than 330 people filled La Paloma, a ballroom older than most tech companies and far more accustomed to sardanes and waltzes than to music data infrastructures, to celebrate BMAT’s 20+ years of existence. The night acted as the closing act for our Together Week, a […]

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]]> 14204 The Long Play https://www.bmat.com/bmat-turns-20/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:03:13 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=14141 BMAT turns 20 this year. Such an anniversary deserves a well-thought-out post, but it’s not going to be this one. We have the feeling that 2 decades are too long a period, too long a journey for us to be able to explain anything meaningful about it. We’ve always treasured Holden Caulfield’s final statement: “Don’t […]

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]]> 14141 Inside BMAT DSP Processing: How SIAE turned operational clarity into stronger licences and faster distributions https://www.bmat.com/inside-dsp-processing-siae/ Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:40:54 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=14011 Some relationships last because they work, others last because they grow. For more than 10 years, we believe the partnership between SIAE and us has done both. Across products and people, we kept refining the machinery behind daily operations until the chaos started to behave and turn into something resembling a choreography. When the major […]

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]]> 14011 KODA and BMAT Announce Landmark Global Partnership for Music Rights and Royalties Management https://www.bmat.com/koda-partnership/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:17:12 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=13519 BMAT, a global leader in music technology and rights and royalties data, is proud to announce a new partnership with KODA, the collecting society for songwriters, composers and music publishers of Denmark. This new strategic alliance between BMAT and KODA is a forward-looking step that will provide KODA with BMAT’s industry-leading digital rights and royalties […]

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]]> 13519 Inside ReSol: An interview with SACEM on rethinking how digital claiming conflicts are resolved https://www.bmat.com/inside-resol-sacem/ Wed, 26 Mar 2025 09:17:46 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=12898 Much like family gatherings, the intricate world of digital music rights is no stranger to conflict. With frequent occurrences like overlapping ownership claims, metadata inaccuracies, licensing and royalty disputes and discrepancies, claiming conflicts are rarely black and white. We count ourselves fortunate to have pinned down Nans Miron for this conversation—a true pioneer with a […]

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]]> 12898 What to do when AI crashes into your party https://www.bmat.com/music-ai-training/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:00:44 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=11335 On the 1st of August 2024, the EU AI Act, unanimously approved on May 21, 2024, came into effect, delivering the world’s first AI law which clearly calls for the need for AI companies to comply with copyright for ingestion. It establishes transparency obligations on which content has been acquired for training, introducing a degree […]

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]]> 11335 Decoding voice cloning and recognition – an AI introspective https://www.bmat.com/ai-voice-cloning/ Thu, 11 Jul 2024 05:59:40 +0000 https://www.bmat.com/?p=11255 Ethical concerns emerge around the extent of manipulation and the privacy implications involved in the advancing use of voice data. The riddle we're tackling is whether the evolving use of voice data in AI can be ethically sourced and properly traced.

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