{"id":21079,"date":"2026-10-08T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/?p=21079"},"modified":"2026-10-08T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T13:37:27","slug":"stim-ai-rights-category-ai-licence-writer-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/stim-ai-rights-category-ai-licence-writer-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"STIM Added an AI Rights Category on 1 June. No Song Enters Its AI Licence Until the Writer Approves It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STIM, Sweden&#8217;s songwriter society, has held a separate AI rights category for every member since 1 June 2026, and its AI licence covers only works a writer has approved one by one.<\/p>\n<p>STIM stands for Svenska Tons\u00e4ttares Internationella Musikbyr\u00e5. Its AI licence is a year old. The default behind it is newer, and it decides whether a song earns from AI training at all.<\/p>\n<h2>What changed on 1 June<\/h2>\n<p>STIM <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/news\/stim-launches-the-worlds-first-ai-license-for-music\">launched its collective AI licence on 8 September 2025<\/a>, with Stockholm startup Songfox as the first licensee and Sureel as attribution partner. Writing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/swedens-stim-has-launched-the-worlds-first-ai-license-for-music-heres-how-the-org-says-it-will-work\/\">Music Business Worldwide<\/a>, Murray Stassen set the backdrop: a December 2024 study by CISAC, the global confederation of authors&#8217; societies, projected AI could cannibalise 24% of music creators&#8217; revenues by 2028.<\/p>\n<p>At STIM&#8217;s 2026 general meeting, members <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/news\/stim-strengthens-music-creators-freedom-of-choice-and-control-in-ai-introduces-new-rights-category\">voted in a dedicated AI rights category<\/a>, administered like live, radio and TV. From 1 June every STIM-affiliated creator sits inside it, in one of three positions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Approve nothing.<\/strong> No works enter AI licences, but STIM still monitors the rights.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Approve selected works.<\/strong> This is done <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/faq\/ai\/how-do-i-practically-approve-works-to-be-included-in-stims-ai-licensing\">in My Pages on stim.se<\/a>, work by work. Nothing is included automatically.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Withdraw the category.<\/strong> You then manage AI rights yourself or through a publisher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The default now governs a society that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/news\/stim-passes-the-billion-mark-in-sweden\">collected SEK 3.1 billion in rights revenue in 2025<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/news\/what-did-stim-do-for-its-members-2025\">paid almost 80,000 members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>How the money is meant to split<\/h2>\n<p>STIM pays at two points, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/faq\/ai\/how-does-stim-ensure-that-compensation-from-the-ai-license-reaches-the-right-music-creators-and-publishers\">its FAQ<\/a> sets a different rule for each:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Training:<\/strong> compensation is distributed proportionally and equally among all works in the licence. Streams do not weight it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Output:<\/strong> payment follows attribution, meaning software that links a generated track to the works that influenced it. Licensees must use an attribution provider such as Sureel and, initially, file the analyses monthly.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fallback:<\/strong> where attribution is not reliable, STIM distributes by analogy, based on how works were used in the training data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>STIM has not published fees or revenue-share terms. Members will see AI income in My Pages and the STIM app.<\/p>\n<h2>The clauses that decide your options<\/h2>\n<h3>Revocation only runs forward<\/h3>\n<p>You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/faq\/ai\/are-there-rules-for-when-i-can-withdraw-an-approval\">withdraw an approval<\/a>, but it does not affect use already made under an earlier licence. Training that has happened is not undone.<\/p>\n<h3>STIM licenses the song, not the recording<\/h3>\n<p>STIM represents the composition only. If an AI company wants a specific recording, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/faq\/ai\/do-the-master-rights-for-the-song-also-need-to-be-approved\">the master must be cleared separately<\/a> with its owner, which for a self-releasing artist is usually you.<\/p>\n<h3>Publishers need the category moved<\/h3>\n<p>A publisher can run your AI rights only if you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/faq\/ai\/can-my-publisher-handle-the-ai-rights-for-me\">withdraw the AI category from STIM and grant it to them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>No sister society can license it<\/h3>\n<p>STIM says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stim.se\/en\/faq\/ai\/can-other-collecting-societies-license-stims-repertoire-for-ai-use\">no other collecting society is mandated<\/a> to license its repertoire for AI, and that its own AI licences may cover several countries or the whole world.<\/p>\n<h2>Finland chose the opposite default<\/h2>\n<p>Teosto, <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/finland-teosto-streaming-royalties-46-percent-median-93-euros\/\">Finland&#8217;s songwriter society<\/a>, added an AI category too. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teosto.fi\/en\/faqs\/faq-copyright-and-royalties\/artificial-intelligence-and-music-copyright\/can-i-prohibit-the-use-of-my-music-in-ai-related-contexts\/\">FAQ, published 16 June 2026<\/a>, says the category reserves members&#8217; works against text and data mining under section 13b of the Finnish Copyright Act.<\/p>\n<p>Removing the category, with a single selection, takes works out of Teosto&#8217;s future AI licensing deals. On Teosto&#8217;s wording, leaving takes an action. On STIM&#8217;s, joining does, one work at a time.<\/p>\n<h2>What to do with your catalogue<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Treat approval as a catalogue decision.<\/strong> Training money splits equally per work in a licence, so ten of your tracks in one draw ten shares, whatever they stream.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Log every approval with a date.<\/strong> Withdrawal is prospective, so your own dated record is the audit trail you control.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Settle the publisher question first.<\/strong> Moving the category out of STIM is the only route to publisher-run AI deals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Decide the master separately.<\/strong> A yes at STIM covers your composition share only. Ask your distributor in writing whether its terms allow AI licensing of your recordings, whoever you distribute with, InterSpace Distribution included.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not in Sweden?<\/strong> Check whether your society has an AI category, and its default. Nordic rules already diverge, from <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/norway-tono-distribution-model-songwriters-40-million-kroner-less\/\">Norway&#8217;s distribution pools<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/denmark-koda-streaming-residuals-unmatched-songs-got-none\/\">Denmark&#8217;s unmatched streams<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sweden&#8217;s songwriters already <a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/swedens-streaming-market-grew-2-its-songwriters-rule-the-hot-100-the-money-lives-offshore\/\">earn much of their money offshore<\/a>. For AI, the first decision now sits with the writer, song by song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STIM&#8217;s AI licence now runs on a dedicated rights category: since 1 June 2026 no Swedish song enters an AI deal until its writer approves it, work by work. 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