Musicians release silent album in anti-AI protest

Musicians release silent album in anti-AI protest

Proposed changes to UK law allow AI training on any lawfully accessed material

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PUBLISHED : 25 Feb 2025 at 21: 11

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An image of an empty studio taken from a video released to promote Is This What We Want? (katebush.com)

LONDON – More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush and Cat Stevens, on Tuesday released a silent album to protest proposed changes to Britain’s copyright laws, which could allow tech firms to train artificial intelligence models using their work.

Creative industries globally are grappling with the legal and ethical implications of AI models that can produce their own output after being trained on popular works without necessarily paying the creators of the original content.

Britain, which Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to become an AI superpower, has proposed relaxing laws that currently give creators of literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works the right to control the ways th
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