The UK government is pushing forward plans to attract more artificial intelligence companies to the region by changing the law of copyright. The proposed changes for developers will allow the training of artificial intelligence models on the content of the artists online – without permission or payment – unless the “subscription” is proactively “canceling”. Not everyone is going to the same rhythm.
On Monday, a group of 1,000 “Silent album” musicians released, protesting Planned changes. The album – entitled “Is this what we want?” – It includes paths from Kate Bush, an emojin pile, and contemporary classic composers Max Richter and Thomas Hoyette Jones, among others. It is also characterized by shared credit HundredsIncluding big names such as Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn, Billy Ocean, The Clash, Mystery Jets, Yusuf / Cat Stevens, Riz Ahmed, Tori Amos and Hans Zimmer.
But this is not the Aid Part 2. It is not a group of music. Instead, artists have collected empty studios and performance spaces – a symbolic representation of what they believe will be the impact of the planned copyrights law.
“You can hear my cats move,” is how Hiite Jones described his contribution to the album. “I have two cats in my studio bothering me all day when I work.”
To put a more honest point on it, the 12 -track addresses that make up the album spelling a message: “The British government must not legislate music for the benefit of artificial intelligence companies.” You can listen to yourself here.
The album is just a newer step in the UK to attract attention to the issue of how to address copyrights in training artificial intelligence. Similar protests We are ongoing In other markets, such as the United States, highlights global anxiety among artists.
Ed Newton-Rex, who organized the project simultaneously led a larger campaign against artificial intelligence training without a license. A Seam It has now begun by more than 47,000 visual books and artists, actors and others in creative industries, where nearly 10,000 of them have participated in the past five weeks only since the UK government announced its great strategy of artificial intelligence.
“He also runs a non-profit organization in artificial intelligence for the past year as we were witnessing companies that do not leave and train in great work without permission.”
Newton Rex reached the call to artists after they fought on both sides. Classically trained as a composer, later built an artificial intelligence -based music composition called Jucedeck, which allows people to overcome the use of copyright works by creating their own. His attractive stadium won, where the virtues of the use of artificial intelligence were launched and ignored in the Teccrunch start -up square in 2015. Jucedeck was eventually obtained by Tiktok, where he was working for some time in music services.
After several years in other technology companies such as Snap and Invential, Newton-Rex has returned to looking at how to build the future without burning the past. He is considering this idea from a very interesting point of view: he now lives in the Gulf region with his wife Alice Newton-Rex, Vice President of WHATSAPP.
The release of the album comes just before the planned changes in the UK’s copyright law, which would force artists who do not want to use their work for the purposes of artificial intelligence training in a proactive manner.
Newton-Rex believes that this effectively creates a loss of artists due to the lack of a method of canceling the subscription, or any clear way to be able to track the specific materials that have been fed in any Amnesty International system.
“We know that the cancellation plans are not taken,” he said. “This will give only 90 % [to] 95 % of people work for artificial intelligence companies. This is undoubtedly. “
The solution, for example, is the production of work in other markets where there may be better protection for it. Hiite Jones-who threw a keyboard working in a port in Kent in a personal protest not long ago (hunting, broken, then)-he is thinking about markets like Switzerland to distribute his music in the future.
But the rocks and the difficult place for a port in you are nothing compared to the West West from the Internet.
“We were told for decades to share our work online because he is good for exposure. But now artificial intelligence companies, incredibly, governments spin and say:” Well, I have put it online for free … “Newton Rex said.” Now artists stop On making and sharing their work. A number of artists called me to say that this is what they are doing. “
The organizers said that the album will be widely published on music platforms at one time on Tuesday, and any donations or revenues from their playing will go to charitable musicians.
