In turn, Elton John alerts against the threat that artificial intelligence makes weigh on artists. Nicking the step to his colleague Paul McCartney, the singer of Rocket Man Speaking this Sunday, January 26 to oppose a copyright reform project by the British executive.
In the columns of Sunday Times, the 77 -year -old artist believes that the government reform project “dilute” and “threaten” even more the income of young artists:
“This will allow large global technological companies to access artists for free and easily to train their artificial intelligence and create competing music,” he alerted.
Before ensuring that all “the actors of the music world are categorically opposed” to the reform.
“An exception to copyright”
The Labor Government studies the project to introduce modifications in the Act respecting copyright. Among them, “an exception to copyright” to cause AI models for commercial purposes.
According to the BBC, this measure would allow artificial intelligence societies to free themselves from the rules relating to copyright, as long as they use this matter only to produce text or explore data.
Still according to the British media, the project studied by the government plans to allow artists to oppose a right of reserve so that artificial intelligence companies do not have access to their music. But detractors underline that it is impossible for an artist to approach the thousands of artificial intelligence companies in order to prohibit each with access to their creations.
Paul McCartney vent debout
Paul McCartney, Saturday, was already speaking on the subject with the BBC: “You take young guys or young girls who start, they write a beautiful song and do not hold the rights (…) and n ‘Inete who can copy it if he wishes, “he was alarmed, before addressing the executive directly:
-“We are the people and you are the government. You are supposed to protect us. It is your job. So if you pass a law, be sure to protect creative spirits, creative artists, or you will lose them . “
Asked about these projects during an interview on the BBC, the Minister of Finance, Rachel Reeves, assured “wanting to support the artists” and doing everything “so that copyright is respected”.
And to add that “without a rigorous and solid protection of copyright (…), the place of the United Kingdom on the world scene, as a leader in the field of arts and popular culture, will be seriously threatened “.
In November 2023, McCartney and Ringo Starr, the surviving members of the Beatles, had used the AI to extract the voice of John Lennon from an unfinished song several decades, entitled Now and Then.
“I think AI is great and that it can do a lot of great things,” said Paul McCartney. However, it “should not strip the creators. It makes no sense”.
Original article published on bfmtv.com
