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Musicians release silent album to protest UK's AI copyright changes

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Voices unheard: Musicians unite against AI copyright changes.

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What you need to know:

  • More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush and Cat Stevens, have released a silent album called 'Is This What We Want?

  • The album was a protest against proposed changes to UK copyright law that could allow AI developers to use their work without permission.

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.