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Artists together with Kate Bush, Sam Fender and Damon Albarn launch silent album in protest at AI copyright plans

By Editorial Board Published February 25, 2025 4 Min Read
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Artists together with Kate Bush, Sam Fender and Damon Albarn launch silent album in protest at AI copyright plans

Is This What We Need? additionally entails artists together with Billy Ocean, Tom Grennan, New Order, Simon Le Bon, Tori Amos, Pet Store Boys, The Conflict, Bashy, Jamiroquai and Imogen Heap – together with a variety of composers, conductors and organisations reminiscent of Hans Zimmer, and the Royal Albert Corridor and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

It options recordings of empty studios and efficiency areas – which artists say may grow to be a actuality for musicians within the UK if the adjustments go forward.

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Duran Duran star Simon Le Bon. Pic: Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

The monitor itemizing spells out the message: “The British government must not legalise music theft to benefit AI companies.”

A session on the difficulty closes right now.

Imogen Heap at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards in January 2020. Pic: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP

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Imogen Heap on the 62nd annual Grammy Awards in January 2020. Pic: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP

Sir Elton John and Simon Cowell have additionally backed a marketing campaign opposing the proposals, and Sir Paul McCartney has spoken out towards them.

The brand new plans fail to reimburse artists for AI recreating and copying their work, stifle creativity, and the proposed opt-out scheme locations an pointless burden on artists, critics say.

All income from the silent album will likely be donated to the musicians’ charity, Assist Musicians.

Hans Zimmer

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Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer can be concerned within the marketing campaign

‘Throwing inventive industries below the bus’

Campaigner Ed Newton-Rex, who organised the album, mentioned: “The government’s proposal would hand the life’s work of the country’s musicians to AI companies, for free, letting those companies exploit musicians’ work to outcompete them.

“It’s a plan that might not solely be disastrous for musicians, however that’s completely pointless. The UK might be leaders in AI with out throwing our world-leading inventive industries below the bus.

“This album shows that, however the government tries to justify it, musicians themselves are united in their thorough condemnation of this ill-thought-through plan.”

The inventive industries have been vocal of their opposition to how highly effective AI fashions reminiscent of ChatGPT can be utilized to generate recent content material on demand, imitating what already exists.

Issues round their use by movie and TV studios to jot down scripts and even substitute actors have been a key driver of the Hollywood strikes in 2023, whereas music labels have sought to stop pop stars’ vocals from being freely cloned and photographers have spoken out towards on-line artwork turbines.

In 2023, UK music contributed £7.6bn to the UK economic system, with exports of UK music reaching £4.6bn.

Dan Conway, chief government of the Publishers Affiliation, the commerce organisation representing e-book, journal and digital publishers within the UK, mentioned the “extraordinary strength of support” towards the proposals is “something the government ignores at its peril”.

He continued: “When Booker, Grammy, Oscar and Nobel prize winners are united in calling on the federal government for a good listening to, we’ve got to hope they hear…

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