Paul McCartney’s Concerns on Copyright Law Changes
Paul McCartney has criticized proposed changes to copyright law, saying if he goes ahead it will allow AI to rip apart artists and lead to a “loss of creativity”.
Impact on Artists and Creativity
The UK government is currently considering changing copyright law to allow AI developers to use creators’ content online as long as it is data or mining to help develop their models.
Offers will give artists or creators a “backup reserve”, but many who believe that the individual is the entire Internet.
Now the former Beatle has spoken out against the proposed changes, saying they could remove the financial incentive for artists to create work and cause a “loss of creativity”.
“When we were kids in Liverpool, we found a job that we loved, but it also paid the bills,” he said during an interview on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. “You get young guys, girls, come in and they write a great song and they don’t own it and they don’t have anything to do with it. And anyone who wants can just rip it off.”
“The truth is that the money goes somewhere… someone gets paid, so why shouldn’t it be the guy who sat down and wrote yesterday?”
He went on to call on the government to reconsider the changes, saying: “We are the people, you are the government! You must protect us. It’s your job.
“So you know, if you charge a bill, make sure you protect creative thinkers, creative artists, or you won’t have any.”
The Beatles previously used the technology to restore John Lennon’s vocals on “The Ending,” released in 2023. New, but rather to help restore pre-existing material.
Generative artificial intelligence programs from the vast amount of data such as text, images or music available on the Internet to generate new content that appears to have been made by a human.
The question is about AI used in music versus “predatory” use of AI in music.
Other musicians who signed the document included Katy Perry, Sam Smith, Kim Petras, Rem, Jon Bon Jovi, Mumford & Sons, Imagine Dragons, D4VD, Jon Batiste, Finneas, Fletcher, Pearl Jam, J Balvin, Jonas Brothers, Noah Kahan, Norah Jones, Act Act, last party, Zayn Malik, Smokey Robinson, Sheryl Crow, Sigrid, Bob Marley and Frank Sinatra estates, label BTS Haib and others.
In November 2023, it was announced that the Council of Musicians (CMM) had shared an open letter about the government’s “deeply tone-deaf” hearings on the impact of AI. Before that, UK music Interim chief executive Tom Keel called on then Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to respond to music industry concerns about artificial intelligence by introducing some form of legal protection around the developing technology.
One of the most important statistics regarding AI came in December, when it was estimated that people working in music could lose a quarter of their income to artificial intelligence over the next four years.
Without intervention from politicians, those working in music predict their income will rise by more than 20 per cent, while AI developers in the music industry are set to receive £3.3 billion (up from £0.08 billion pounds sterling in 2023), for. Guardian.
The annual market for generative AI is currently £2.5 billion, which is forecast to grow to £52.8 billion by 2028.
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