Music stars releasing a quiet album in protest against British plans for copyright | Music news
Is that what we want the features of empty studios, the performance of space, emphasizing the danger to the creative trade.
More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Cat Stevens and Annie Lennox, has released a silent album in protest due to the proposed changes to British Copyright Laws Artificial intelligence (AI)What they warned could lead to legalized theft of music.
The album, entitled what we want, is launched on Tuesday and contains footage of empty studios and performance, as in the UK grows a plan.
The proposed changes would allow the programmers of AI to train their models on any material they have a lawful approach to, and creatives would require them to be proactively to stop their work.
Critics, including artists participating in a quiet album, say that the principle of copyright laws would reverse that enables the creators exclusive control over their work.
The appearance of AI represented a threat to the creative industry, including music, asking legal and ethical issues on a new technological platform that could produce its own product without paying the creator of the original content.
Bush and other writers and musicians denied proposals in the UK as “Great” in the Silicon Valley in a letter to Times newspapers.
Ed Newton-Rex, the project organizer, said the musicians were “united in their thorough condemnation of this thoughtful plan”.
In a very rare move, the British newspaper also highlighted their concerns, launching a campaign with advertisements for the front of almost every national diary, with an internal introductory of paper editor.
Public consultation on legal changes will be closed later on Tuesday.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants to become a superpower in AI industry. Responding to the album, the Government spokesman said that the current copyright regime and AI retain creative industries from “realizing their full potential”.
