Music stars release Silent Album in protest against the UK's copyright plans | Musical news

Do we want functions for records of empty studios, spaces for performance, emphasizing the danger of creative trade.

More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Cat Stevens and Ani Lennox, released a silent album in protest of proposed changes to British Copyright Laws around Artificial Intelligence (AI)Which they have warned can lead to legalized music theft.

The album, entitled is what we want, was started on Tuesday and includes records of empty studios and spaces, as the reverse response against the plan is increasing in the United Kingdom.

The proposed changes would allow AI developers to train their models in any material to which they have legitimate access and will require creators to refuse to actively not use their work.

Critics, including contractors participating in the Silent album, say that this would cancel the principle of the Copyright Act, which provides exceptional control of the creators for their work.

The appearance of AI is a threat to the creative industry, including music, raising legal and ethical issues on a new technology platform that can produce its own production without paying creators of original content.

Bush and other writers and musicians condemned the proposals in the United Kingdom Act as the “wholesale” to the Silicon Valley in a letter to the Times newspaper.

Ed Newton-Rex, the organizer of the project, said the musicians were “united in their in-depth condemnation of this unfavorable plan”.

In a very rare move, newspapers in the United Kingdom also highlighted their concerns by launching a campaign involving ads on the front of almost every national daily, with an internal editorial by the editors of the documents.

Public consultation on legal changes will be completed later on Tuesday.

British Prime Minister Kayer Starmer wants to become a superpower in AI industryS In response to the album, a government spokesman said that current copyright and AI regime retain creative industries from “realizing their full potential.”