[Tianji. com IT News Channel]Universal Music Group ranks first in the music industry.

    Universal Music Group was selected because of its leading position in the field of generative artificial intelligence and taking the lead in proposing a new "artist-centered" royalty distribution model for streaming media.

    (Santa Monica, March 19, 2024) Universal Music Group, the leader of the global music and entertainment industry, was selected as the prestigious "Fast  Company)》2024 Global * Innovative Companies "list. This is the second time that Universal Music Group has been selected in five years, and it is also the first time that a mainstream music company has been listed for the second time. This year’s list focuses on companies that have shaped their industries and cultures through innovation, set new standards and achieved remarkable milestones in various economic fields.

    Universal Music Group also ranks first in the classification list of the music industry.

    When introducing the company’s achievements in the past 12 months, Fast Company pointed out that Universal Music Group was established by Sir Lucian Granci, Chairman and CEO (Sir  Lucian  Under the leadership of Grainge, he advocates the establishment of a healthier and more sustainable music ecology, so that artists and songwriters can flourish in the next few decades and treat artificial intelligence in a responsible way. This way will pay more attention to artistic value and better coordinate the relationship between artists and fans, thus providing higher value for the platform.

    "Although many veterans in the music industry were worried about the emergence of generative artificial intelligence last year, Universal Music Group, the world’s largest music company, saw an opportunity. As Interscope, Geffen and Def  Universal Music Group, the parent company of record companies such as Jam, has been coordinating the response of the whole industry to this technology, and at the same time redesigning the distribution method of streaming media royalties behind the scenes-all of which are looking for’ artist-centered’ solutions to deal with the threat posed by artificial intelligence. "

    "Fast Company" also pointed out:

    "Universal Music Group promoted the ‘(Human  Artistry  Campaign (HAC) has played an important role. The movement has brought together more than 150 organizations inside and outside the industry to jointly establish a framework for action to ensure that artificial intelligence can be used responsibly to carry out creative work on the premise of respecting copyright and artists’ image. Universal Music Group advocated lobbying Congress to strengthen the supervision of artificial intelligence through this policy; Sue Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup that uses copyrighted lyrics to train its model and generate protected lyrics; And guide strategic partners to better benefit from this technology. In August last year, Universal Music Group and YouTube jointly launched an artificial intelligence incubator, which was jointly built by many artists under Universal Music Group, from Frank  Sinatra estate management will go to John  Legend, then to Charli  XCX and Troye  Sivan, etc In October, BandLab, a music creation platform driven by artificial intelligence, signed the HAC principle and promised to cooperate with Universal Music Group to promote human artists to * priority in its music production tools. "

    "Fast Company" also emphasizes that Universal Music Group has introduced a new "artist-centered" streaming media royalty distribution model:

    "At the same time, faced with the challenge of massive music content pouring into the streaming media platform, Universal Music Group skillfully proposed a solution, which essentially broke through the deep-rooted royalty distribution model in the past decade. Last year, it cooperated with Deezer, a French music streaming service provider, and won twice the royalty income for artists who received more than 1,000 plays from more than 500 listeners every month, while avoiding the commercialization of white noise content. Deezer* initially only cooperated with artists of Universal Music Group to launch this’ artist-centered’ royalty distribution model, and now it has been applied to more than half of its music library. In January of this year, Spotify also adopted a similar payment scheme, setting a threshold for artists who reach 1000 plays per year to pay royalties. "

    Fast Company magazine not only selected 50 innovative companies in the world, but also published 606 company organizations spanning 58 industries and regions. The editors and authors of the magazine have deeply explored the companies that promote the progress of the industry in various fields around the world. The results of this selection have also become a global innovation guide, covering from start-ups to some valuable companies in the world.

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January 30th is the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month. Although the New Year has not yet officially arrived, the driver’s home in Dengbei Jianeng Station of Xiangyang Petroleum of China Petrochemical Company has a strong flavor of the year. Red window grilles and Spring Festival couplets can be seen everywhere, and exquisite "Fu" ornaments adorn it. In the kitchen, the sound of cutting vegetables and cooking kept going. In a short time, the round table was filled with delicious home-cooked dishes. Jia Yani, the stationmaster, couldn’t take a rest, and she helped several freight drivers to pick up vegetables and pour water one by one, so she was too busy to stop.

　　Beijing, Jan 22 (Xinhuanet) According to the website of the National Development and Reform Commission, according to the deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, local governments and relevant departments in the State Council actively carried out the cleaning and rectification of golf courses, earnestly implemented various cleaning and rectification measures, and conducted a comprehensive verification of the cleaning and rectification results. At present, the clean-up and rectification and comprehensive verification work have been completed, and the clean-up and rectification tasks such as banning, withdrawing, revoking and rectification have been basically put in place. There are 683 golf courses in China, and the results of clean-up and rectification are announced as follows.

　　First, ban the class stadium.A total of 111 stadiums across the country have been ordered to be banned, and their business activities have stopped. The land has been restored to its original state according to the plan, the characteristics of stadiums have been eliminated, illegal buildings have been demolished, and the responsibilities of relevant units and personnel have been investigated according to laws and regulations.

　　Second, quit the class stadium.A total of 18 stadiums in China have been ordered to withdraw, of which 17 stadiums have withdrawn from the land occupied by the relevant protected areas and restored to their original state according to the plan, and illegal construction projects have been dismantled or closed, eliminating the characteristics of the stadium, and one stadium is withdrawing as required.

　　Third, cancel the class stadium.A total of 47 stadiums in China have been ordered to be cancelled, all kinds of construction and business activities have been stopped, and the characteristics of stadiums have been eliminated according to the requirements of local governments and departments, and the responsibilities of relevant units and personnel have been investigated according to laws and regulations.

　　Fourth, rectify the stadium.A total of 507 stadiums across the country have been required to be rectified, of which 11 stadiums have been actively closed by local governments and enterprises, and the stadium project no longer exists; 496 stadiums have been rectified, and a small amount of cultivated land occupied in violation of the overall land use planning has been withdrawn, and the occupied natural forests and national public welfare forests have been withdrawn. After the land is rehabilitated and vegetation is restored, it will be returned to the original rural collective organizations or original farmers (operators). The pollutants discharged from the stadiums have reached the relevant environmental protection standards, eliminated the hidden dangers of flood control, tightened water-saving measures, standardized water intake behavior, and investigated the responsibilities of relevant units and personnel according to laws and regulations.

　　Attachment: National Golf Course Cleaning and Renovation Results

　　Responsible comrades of the National Development and Reform Commission answered reporters’ questions on the cleaning and rectification of golf courses.　

　　Recently, the relevant state ministries and local governments have made the results of golf course cleaning and rectification public. In this regard, the reporter interviewed the relevant responsible comrades of the National Development and Reform Commission.

　　Q: In recent years, the cleaning and renovation of golf courses carried out by the state has attracted the attention of the society. Please tell us about the background of cleaning and renovation.

　　A:In 2004, in order to rationally utilize and protect land and water resources and curb the blind construction of golf courses, the General Office of the State Council issued the Notice on Suspending the Construction of New Golf Courses (Guo Ban Fa [2004] No.1), requiring all localities and departments not to approve the construction of new golf courses. After the issuance of the Notice, the phenomenon of blindly building golf courses has been curbed. However, for a period of time, some enterprises ignored the requirements of the Notice and laws and regulations and still illegally built golf courses. In order to effectively strengthen supervision and management and resolutely stop the illegal construction of golf courses, with the consent of the State Council, in April 2011, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Land and Resources, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, the General Administration of Sports, the State Forestry Administration, the National Tourism Administration and other departments jointly issued the Notice on Carrying out the Comprehensive Cleaning and Renovation of Golf Courses in China, and started the nationwide cleaning and rectification work. Since then, the CBRC has also participated in the clean-up and rectification work.

　　Q: What have various regions and departments mainly done since the clean-up and rectification work was carried out?

　　A:Since the clean-up and rectification work was carried out, all regions and departments have conscientiously implemented the decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, thoroughly implemented the spirit of the eight central regulations, deepened their understanding from the height of safeguarding the authority of the central government and ensuring the smooth implementation of government decrees, and earnestly carried out the clean-up and rectification work.

　　The first is to improve the mechanism.It has gradually established a responsibility mechanism in which the governments of all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government assume the main responsibility and the relevant departments of the State Council assume the supervisory responsibility, and established a coordination mechanism for clean-up and rectification work with the participation of the departments of development and reform, supervision, land, environmental protection, housing construction, water conservancy, agriculture, industry and commerce, sports, forestry, tourism and banking supervision.

　　The second is to file a file.All localities have established file materials and archival materials for each stadium to clarify the specific construction situation of each stadium and sort out the illegal and illegal problems of the stadium one by one; All the file materials and archival materials will be included in the scope of verification and review, and whether the clean-up and rectification are in place will be checked.

　　The third is classified processing.In accordance with the four types of opinions on banning, withdrawing, revoking and rectifying, all relevant departments around the country have earnestly carried out clean-up and rectification work, and checked the implementation of classified treatment opinions one by one; We will adopt a zero-tolerance attitude and ban all the stadiums that are newly built against the wind, refuse to stop work and conceal their reports during the clean-up and rectification period.

　　The fourth is comprehensive verification.Relevant departments of all localities jointly conducted a comprehensive verification of the classification and treatment of golf courses, which was first verified by relevant provincial departments and then reviewed by relevant state departments, and organized joint on-site inspections by ministries and commissions on many occasions to resolutely correct the problems of inadequate cleaning and rectification and scratching the ball.

　　Thanks to the joint efforts of all relevant departments, at present, all cleaning and remediation tasks have been basically completed, and the cleaning and remediation of golf courses nationwide has basically ended.

　　Q: Please tell us about the details of the four types of handling opinions, namely, banning, withdrawing, revoking and rectifying. What courses are targeted at and what are the handling requirements?

　　A:According to the relevant laws and regulations and the requirements of cleaning and rectification work, the problems existing in the construction of golf courses in China are divided into four categories: banning, withdrawing, canceling and rectification.The first category is banning,The scope mainly includes nine kinds of problem courses, one is a course that occupies a large amount of cultivated land in violation of land use planning and urban and rural planning, and the other is a course that occupies the core area or buffer area of nature reserves, the first-class and second-class protected areas of drinking water sources or the second-class and above protected areas of national scenic spots (including core scenic spots) after the issuance of the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Suspension of New Golf Courses or the delineation of related protected areas. Third, there are serious violations of laws and regulations, such as fraud; fourth, there are courses that do not leave the occupied natural forests or national public welfare forests; fifth, there are courses that are built in river beaches, flood discharge areas, lakes and reservoir areas and cannot eliminate the hidden dangers of flood control; sixth, there is no alternative water source for water intake; seventh, there are courses that are banned by local governments; eighth, there are courses that are built against the wind and refuse to stop work during the cleaning and rectification work; and ninth, there are courses that cannot pass the water resource demonstration and there is no alternative water source for groundwater intake in the groundwater forbidden mining area. The requirements for banning are that the stadium must stop its business activities, the land should be restored to its original state according to the plan, the characteristics of the stadium should be eliminated, illegal buildings should be demolished, and the responsibilities of relevant units and personnel should be investigated according to the law and regulations.The second category is exit,The scope mainly includes the courses that started before the issuance of the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Suspension of New Golf Courses, and the first-class and second-class protected areas of drinking water sources and the second-class and above protected areas of national scenic spots (including core scenic spots) after the construction of the courses. These courses did not occupy the drinking water source protected areas and scenic spots during the construction, but were classified into drinking water source protected areas and scenic spots after the completion, which did not meet the current regulations on the protection of drinking water source protected areas and scenic spots, so they should be withdrawn. For the stadiums that occupied the drinking water source protection zone in the early stage of cleaning up and rectification, and then the local government has adjusted the scope of the drinking water source protection zone according to law, and no longer violated the protection regulations of the drinking water source protection zone, and the stadiums that have withdrawn from the occupied drinking water source protection zone and the second-class and above national scenic spots (including core scenic spots), they shall be treated as rectification courses. The requirement of withdrawal is to withdraw the occupied land in the relevant protected areas, restore the original state according to the plan, and dismantle or close illegal construction projects in accordance with the system requirements of drinking water source protection areas and scenic spots, while taking relevant protection measures according to law, strengthening supervision, eliminating pollution and not destroying the scenic spots.The third category is revocation,The scope mainly includes three kinds of problem courses, one is the course with less workload that has not formed the actual course, the other is the course that has not been shut down according to the regulations, and the third is the course that has been investigated and dealt with by departments and localities according to law and ordered to shut down. The requirement for cancellation is that the stadium project must continue to stop construction and operation, and the relevant units and personnel should be held accountable according to the law and regulations.The fourth category is rectification,All the stadiums except those that are banned, withdrawn and revoked are included in the scope of rectification. The requirements for rectification are to withdraw the cultivated land that does not meet the overall land use planning and carry out rehabilitation, not to avoid rehabilitation by means of supplementary in different places, to withdraw the occupied natural forests and state-level public welfare forests, and to return the land to the original rural collective organizations or original farmers (operators) after rehabilitation and vegetation restoration. The pollutants discharged from the stadiums must meet relevant environmental protection standards, eliminate hidden dangers of flood control, strictly save water, and standardize water intake behavior.

　　Q: What is the result of this national golf course cleaning and rectification? How many courses are classified?

　　A:Through this clean-up and rectification work, we have mastered the construction of golf courses in China. At present, there are 683 golf courses in China. Except Tibet Autonomous Region, there are golf courses in all provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), and there are many golf courses in Bohai Rim, Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and Hainan, Yunnan and other major tourist provinces. All the 683 golf courses in China have been cleaned up and rectified according to four categories: banning, withdrawing, revoking and rectification. Among them, 111 golf courses have been banned, 18 golf courses have been ordered to withdraw, 47 golf courses have been revoked, 11 golf courses have been closed by local governments and enterprises, and the remaining 496 golf courses have been rectified. The National Development and Reform Commission has jointly announced the results of cleaning up and rectification of national golf courses with relevant departments in the State Council and local people’s governments. You can go to relevant websites.

　　Q: What achievements have been made through the national golf course cleaning and rectification work?

　　A:Through the joint efforts of various regions and departments, the task of cleaning and renovating golf courses in China has basically been completed, and the cleaning and renovating work has basically ended. To sum up, it has achieved three main results.First, it stopped the wind of illegal and indiscriminate construction of stadiums.Since the clean-up and rectification work was carried out, all the stadiums under construction have been stopped, and all the stadiums to be started have also been stopped. The state has always maintained a high-handed attitude towards golf courses that were newly built against the wind, refused to stop work, and concealed and failed to report during the clean-up and rectification period. It was found that the wind of illegal and indiscriminate construction of golf courses was obviously curbed, and the behavior of newly built golf courses against the wind was basically eliminated.The second is to correct all kinds of illegal construction behaviors.After the clean-up and rectification work, all kinds of golf courses in China no longer occupy cultivated land, natural forests and national public welfare forest land, and no longer occupy the core area or buffer area of nature reserves, the first-class and second-class protected areas of drinking water sources, and the second-class and above protected areas of national scenic spots (including core scenic spots). The pollutants discharged by golf courses have reached relevant environmental protection standards, eliminated hidden dangers of flood control, tightened water-saving measures, standardized water intake behavior, and effectively corrected all kinds of illegal behaviors.The third is to seriously investigate the responsibility.According to the violations of laws and regulations in the stadium, all localities have seriously investigated the responsibilities of relevant units and personnel, and given disciplinary and political sanctions to the responsible personnel. At the same time, the clues to the problems of building a new stadium against the wind, refusing to stop work, and concealing the behavior of the stadium since the clean-up and rectification work was carried out, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, were handed over to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for "double investigation of one case", and the responsibility of the relevant party member cadres was seriously investigated.

　　Q: Through this clean-up and rectification work, the problems of existing golf courses have been standardized and solved. How to supervise and manage the construction of golf courses in the future?

　　A:In the future, the supervision of golf course construction should follow the mechanism of departmental supervision and local responsibility, and continue to strictly implement the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on Suspending the Construction of New Golf Courses (Guo Ban Fa [2004] No.1) and the requirements of relevant laws and regulations. All relevant departments in the State Council should fulfill their supervisory responsibilities according to their functions, and make overall use of satellite remote sensing monitoring and daily inspections to improve the supervision system. Local governments at all levels should give full play to their management responsibilities, forbid the construction of new stadiums, strictly regulate the management and operation of stadiums, and monitor the environmental protection, water saving and water intake of stadiums according to law. In the future, it is found that golf courses newly built and illegally expanded against the wind should follow the attitude of "zero tolerance", and all localities should resolutely investigate both cases, all courses should be banned, and the regulatory responsibility should be seriously investigated. We also welcome all sectors of society to play a good supervisory role.