Release a new album Is this what we want?Silent contributions from musicians including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox Proposed changes Grants the UK copyright law on AI.
Protest album organized by musicians and AI entrepreneurs Ed Newton-Rexconsisting of 12 tracks, which include 47 minutes of silence recorded by more than 1,000 contributors in empty studios and other spaces. The title of the track combines it and says: “The British government must not legalize music theft to benefit AI companies.”
This album, along with a previous statement released a few months ago 50,000 Creators and Artistsin line with the proposed UK change that will allow companies to train AI models on fairly used and copyrighted content unless the copyright owner explicitly opts out of the license.
On February 25, the British government conducted a public consultation on the rules changes. Propose public criticism From characters like Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dua Lipa and Paul McCartney.
Companies like Chatgpt Maker Openai, Google, Microsoft and Apple all need a lot of data to train their large data models. This information can include everything from newspaper digital archives to digital books to social media accounts.
The dispute now in the UK is whether it is possible to train not only publicly available data and academic research on AI models, but also copyrighted music and texts (such as lyrics). Under the proposed changes, companies and individuals that have copyrights for songs or other items need to exit to prevent companies from training AI.
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Alina TrapovaA British legal scholar and lecturer who closely monitors the debate, said the proposed changes “beyond music” but the music industry has been well organized to draw attention to the issue.
Trapova said the proposal’s opt-out feature: “It may lead to the right hand holding its work. This is because the exit mechanism that exists today can and is being bypassed.” Artists may not know that they have to opt-out. Trapova said it has recommended to use an opt-in mechanism that rights holders explicitly allow.
“Whatever the government does, it has to follow some kind of standardization process, which, ideally, would fit in with what other major jurisdictions are doing in this regard,” she said. Similar measures As part of last year’s AI bill, cases are being improved in ways that are handled to increase transparency and rights reservations.
“The ongoing debate on the efficacy and burden of exit models,” said Chris Mammen, partner at Womble Bond Dickinson. “The U.S. is widely described as following a choice model, while Europe follows an option model with GDPR following an option inclusion Model.”
For this set of changes, “the fear of musicians and other content creators is that AI models that have been worked will be able to produce free or cheap new works on the scale of industrial/supercomputers, which will allow them to make money from making money from Their content creation activities are in progress,” Mammen said.
“For example, an AI platform may still have some guardrails that prohibit the prompts that are required to be output in the way that a specific living artist is. But one can easily imagine designing an AI prompt would prompt a specific guardrail of that type,” he added.
