IFPI Representing recording industry worldwide

I.F.P.I.

IFPI is a worldwide organisation representing the music industry.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Manuela Ripa (Member of the European Parliament) and European Film Agency Directors

8 Oct 2025 · Audiovisual Media Policy

Meeting with Hannes Heide (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2025 · Friends of Music evening/dinner

Meeting with Iuliu Winkler (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2025 · AI and copyright regulations

Meeting with Hannes Heide (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Sept 2025 · Keynote speaker / Launch of Music in the EU report

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

22 Sept 2025 · Event on copyright and generative AI

Meeting with Sandro Ruotolo (Member of the European Parliament)

10 Sept 2025 · AI and copyright

Meeting with Ilhan Kyuchyuk (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Sept 2025 · AI and copyright

Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament)

2 Sept 2025 · Presentation of Recording Industry Position on Copyright and AI

Meeting with David Cormand (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique (SNEP)

4 Jul 2025 · Francofolies

Meeting with Sandro Ruotolo (Member of the European Parliament)

22 May 2025 · AI code of practice

Meeting with Manuela Ripa (Member of the European Parliament) and Universal Music Group NV

7 May 2025 · AI, creators' rights

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur) and

6 May 2025 · Copyright and generative AI

Meeting with Renate Nikolay (Deputy Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

24 Apr 2025 · Exchange on copyright, including in relation to AI

Meeting with Emma Rafowicz (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Apr 2025 · CULT/Musical sector

Meeting with Tiemo Wölken (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Apr 2025 · AI and Copyright

Meeting with Mario Furore (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Mar 2025 · Incontro conoscitivo

Meeting with Raffaele Fitto (Executive Vice-President)

3 Mar 2025 · Discussion on the challenges faced by music industry and technological and digital innovation, including the impact of generative artificial intelligence on artists.

Meeting with Emmanuelle Du Chalard (Head of Unit Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

18 Feb 2025 · Discussion on recent developments relevant for copyright and music industry

Meeting with Hristo Petrov (Member of the European Parliament)

12 Feb 2025 · Catch-up Meeting

Meeting with Laurence Farreng (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Jan 2025 · Marché européen de la musique

Meeting with Pierfrancesco Maran (Member of the European Parliament)

18 Dec 2024 · Priorities new legislature

Meeting with Stefano Cavedagna (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Dec 2024 · Introductory meeting - discussion about the next legislative proposals

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Dec 2024 · AI

Meeting with Hristo Petrov (Member of the European Parliament)

22 Oct 2024 · Introductory Meeting

Meeting with Katri Kulmuni (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · Musiikintuottajien ajankohtaisia asioita

Meeting with Dimitris Tsiodras (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · EU digital strategy and policy

Meeting with Antonella Sberna (Member of the European Parliament) and FEDERAZIONE INDUSTRIA MUSICALE ITALIANA

8 Oct 2024 · Challenges and Opportunities for the Music Sector, Including Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual property rights, fair remuneration and impact of digitalization

Meeting with Dóra Dávid (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · Dinner event

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament)

8 Oct 2024 · Digital files

Meeting with Sunčana Glavak (Member of the European Parliament) and Warner Music Group

26 Sept 2024 · Meeting on EU policies impacting the music industry

Meeting with Lara Magoni (Member of the European Parliament)

17 Sept 2024 · Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD) and AI in the music sector

Meeting with Zala Tomašič (Member of the European Parliament) and Warner Music Group

10 Sept 2024 · Warner Music + IFPI music recording industry

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament) and DIGITALEUROPE

17 Jul 2024 · Digital files

Meeting with Geoffroy Didier (Member of the European Parliament)

6 Feb 2024 · AI Act

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

9 Jan 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Christian Ehler (Member of the European Parliament) and Bundesverband Musikindustrie e.V.

28 Nov 2023 · Allgemeiner Austausch

Meeting with Geoffroy Didier (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Nov 2023 · AI Act

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

17 Nov 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Niklas Nienass (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

17 Oct 2023 · Situation of artists and the current music streaming sector

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and Palo Alto Networks Inc.

10 Oct 2023 · AI Act

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

18 Jul 2023 · AI Act

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager) and Universal Music Group NV

12 May 2023 · AI Act, copyright.

Meeting with Massimiliano Smeriglio (Member of the European Parliament)

14 Mar 2023 · Recording industry

Meeting with Vladimír Bilčík (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Feb 2023 · Artificial intelligence and copyright issues

Meeting with Ibán García Del Blanco (Member of the European Parliament)

15 Feb 2023 · Exchange of views on the Music Streaming Report and streaming market

Meeting with Massimiliano Smeriglio (Member of the European Parliament)

1 Feb 2023 · Recording industry

Meeting with Victor Negrescu (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Nov 2022 · Music industry related matters

Meeting with Ibán García Del Blanco (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Jul 2022 · Exchange of views on remuneration of artists

Meeting with Ibán García Del Blanco (Member of the European Parliament)

3 May 2022 · Cultural sector / IP rights on the music industry

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

1 Mar 2022 · Digital Services Act

Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

14 Jan 2022 · DSA - creative and cultural sector's concerns

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

29 Nov 2021 · DSA

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

1 Dec 2020 · Digital issues, national transposition measures of Copyright Directive, concerns re quantitative vs qualitative assessments in application of exceptions.

Meeting with Lucrezia Busa (Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders)

12 Oct 2020 · Digital Service Act

Meeting with Werner Stengg (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager)

14 Jul 2020 · To discuss Digital Services Act

Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament)

30 Jun 2020 · Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Agnieszka Skonieczna (Cabinet of Commissioner Thierry Breton)

18 Jun 2020 · Exchange on copyright directive and stakeholder dialogue for Article 17

Meeting with Anthony Whelan (Cabinet of President Ursula von der Leyen)

10 Jan 2020 · Sectoral developments, platforms, copyright implementation, geo-blocking

Meeting with Michael Hager (Cabinet of Vice-President Günther Oettinger)

11 Jan 2019 · DSM

Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

9 Jan 2019 · Copyright

Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

20 Nov 2018 · Copyright

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

29 Oct 2018 · Copyright

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

31 Aug 2018 · Copyright

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

1 Aug 2018 · Phone call on copyright

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

18 Jun 2018 · Copyright

Meeting with Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

1 Mar 2018 · Copyright Directive (recording industry)

Meeting with Lucie Mattera (Cabinet of Commissioner Pierre Moscovici)

23 Feb 2018 · le projet de directive relatif au droit d’auteur en particulier la question du transfert de la valeur (ou « Value Gap »).

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

19 Feb 2018 · Copyright, CabSat Regulation

Meeting with Eric Peters (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

19 Jan 2018 · Copyright proposals and the Enforcement package

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

27 Oct 2017 · Copyright

Meeting with Manuel Mateo Goyet (Cabinet of Commissioner Mariya Gabriel)

25 Sept 2017 · Music in Europe and the EU's Copyright Directive proposal

Meeting with Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

25 Sept 2017 · Digital single market, copyright reform

Meeting with Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

20 Jul 2017 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Kamila Kloc (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

3 Jul 2017 · Geoblocking (music)

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

26 Jun 2017 · DSM Mid-term review, copyright

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

16 Feb 2017 · Copyright refom in particular in the Value Gap, Platforms / Notice and Action - The Commission review of Enforcement

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

6 Feb 2017 · Copyright

Meeting with Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

26 Jan 2017 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Lowri Evans (Director-General Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs)

4 Nov 2016 · Enforcement of intellectual property rights and the review of the IPRED Directive, as well as the ongoing work on the memorandum of understandings (MoUs) in the framework of the follow the money approach.

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy)

27 Oct 2016 · Copyright

Meeting with Marianne Thyssen (Commissioner)

9 Sept 2016 · Copyright

Meeting with Tibor Navracsics (Commissioner)

5 Sept 2016 · Copyright reform

Meeting with Shane Sutherland (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

2 Sept 2016 · Copyright

Meeting with Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

1 Sept 2016 · copyright, value gap

Meeting with Juhan Lepassaar (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip), Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

1 Sept 2016 · Copyright

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

30 Aug 2016 · Value gap

Meeting with Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

11 Aug 2016 · Copyright reform – value gap

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner) and

8 Jul 2016 · Value gap

Meeting with Julie Fionda (Cabinet of Commissioner Marianne Thyssen)

5 Jul 2016 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy)

1 Jul 2016 · copyright

Meeting with Jon Nyman (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström), Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström) and Universal Music Group NV

8 Jun 2016 · public performance and broadcasting in FTA

Meeting with Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner) and

25 May 2016 · Copyright related issues

Meeting with Elżbieta Bieńkowska (Commissioner)

24 May 2016 · Recording industry challenges

Meeting with Günther Oettinger (Commissioner)

24 May 2016 · copyright

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy), Michael Hager (Digital Economy)

19 May 2016 · copyright

Meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker (President) and

18 May 2016 · Meeting with Mr Placido Domingo on Digital Single Market

Meeting with Adrienn Kiraly (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics), Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

3 May 2016 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

18 Feb 2016 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Alicja Magda Herbowska (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics), Szabolcs Horvath (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

1 Feb 2016 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy)

15 Jan 2016 · copyright

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy)

29 Oct 2015 · copyright

Meeting with Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

15 Oct 2015 · DSM – copyright and role of intermediaries

Meeting with Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

25 Sept 2015 · DSM Strategy, copyright

Meeting with Roberto Viola (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

24 Sept 2015 · Digital market for music, DSM, Copyright

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

20 Jul 2015 · role des plateformes numériques

Meeting with Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström), Miguel Ceballos Baron (Cabinet of Vice-President Cecilia Malmström)

28 Apr 2015 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Adrienn Kiraly (Cabinet of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics)

27 Apr 2015 · Digital Single Market, Copyright

Meeting with Andrus Ansip (Vice-President) and

14 Apr 2015 · Copyright, value gap

Meeting with Anna Herold (Digital Economy)

9 Mar 2015 · e-commerce & copyright

Meeting with Sebastian Kuck (Cabinet of Commissioner Jonathan Hill)

25 Feb 2015 · Digital Single Market

Meeting with Eduard Hulicius (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

9 Feb 2015 · Travel Package

Meeting with Liene Balta (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

6 Feb 2015 · Commission Work Programme

Meeting with Carl-Christian Buhr (Cabinet of Commissioner Phil Hogan)

2 Feb 2015 · Presentation IFPI, importance of cultural/music industry to the European economy, wide availability of digital music

Meeting with Fabrice Comptour (Cabinet of Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska)

22 Jan 2015 · Intro meeting

Meeting with Robert Madelin (Director-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology)

15 Jan 2015 · Copyright, Platform regulation, music futures

Meeting with Michael Hager (Digital Economy), Stig Joergen Gren (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

16 Dec 2014 · Copyright

Meeting with Pauline Rouch (Cabinet of President Jean-Claude Juncker)

8 Dec 2014 · Digital Agenda