Newsletter, February 25
Artist Rights Institute’s Submission in IPO Consultation
Artists Protest at IPO Consultation
The Times (Letters to the Editor): Times letters: Protecting UK’s creative copyright against AI
The Telegraph (James Warrington, Dominic Penna): Kate Bush accuses ministers of silencing musicians in copyright row
BBC News (Paul Glynn): Artists release silent album in protest at AI copyright proposals
Reuters (Sam Tabahriti): Musicians release silent album to protest UK’s AI copyright changes
Forbes (Leslie Katz): 1,000-Plus Musicians Drop ‘Silent Album’ To Protest AI Copyright Tweaks
The Daily Mail (Andy Jehring): More than 1,000 musicians including Kate Bash and The Clash release ‘silent album’ to show the impact Labour’s damaging AI plans would have on the music industry
The Guardian (Dan Milmo): Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album
The Guardian (Dan Milmo): Why are creatives fighting UK government AI proposals on copyright?
The Independent (Martyn Landi): Kate Bush and Annie Lennox have released a completely silent album – here’s why
The Evening Standard (Martyn Landi): Musicians protest against AI copyright plans with silent album release
The Independent (Chris Blackhurst): Voices: AI cannot be allowed to thrive at the expense of the UK’s creative industries
The Independent (Holly Evans): UK creative industries launch campaign against AI tech firms’ content use
More than 1,000 musicians have come together to release Is This What You Want?, an album protesting the UK government’s proposed changes to copyright law.
In late 2024, the UK government proposed changing copyright law to allow artificial intelligence companies to build their products using other people’s copyrighted work – music, artworks, text, and more – without a licence.
The musicians on this album came together to protest this. The album consists of recordings of empty studios and performance spaces, representing the impact we expect the government’s proposals would have on musicians’ livelihoods.
All profits from the album are being donated to the charity Help Musicians.