The release of a new album, is this what we want?, Which contains silent contributions from musicians including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox, is drawing attention to the proposed changes to copyright law in the kingdom of United in relation to him.
The protest album, organized by Ai Ed Newton-Rex’s musician and entrepreneur, is made up of 12 songs that include more than 47 minutes of silence recorded in empty studios and other spaces with more than 1,000 contributors. Combined trail titles say: “The British government should not legalize the theft of music to benefit it.”
The album, along with a previous statement released months ago by nearly 50,000 creators and artists, is in accordance with the changes proposed in the UK that would allow companies to train models in the right use, such as and copyright protected content unless copyright owners specifically do not accept the permit.
The United Kingdom Government on February 25 held a public consultation on rules changes, which have attracted public criticism from figures including Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dua Lipa and Paul McCartney.
Companies such as chatgpt Maker Openai, Google, Microsoft and Apple all require large amounts of data to train their large -language data models. Information can include everything, from digital newspaper archives to digitalized books to social media accounts.
UK ISSESSION Now is whether models of it can be trained not only in publicly available data and academic research, but also in copyright protected music and text (such as texts). According to the changes being proposed, companies and individuals holding copyright for songs or other items will have to choose to prevent companies from training with their works.
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Alina Trapova, a British legal researcher and lecturer who has closely followed the debate, says the proposed changes “go beyond music”, but the music industry is well organized in bringing attention to the issue.
Characteristics of the proposal, Trapova said, “may result in the removal of right -wing holders without any control of their work. This is because the choice mechanisms that exist nowadays can be and are overlooked.” Artists may not be aware that they should give up. Trapova said that an OPT-in mechanism, which would require rights holders to grant permission, has been suggested.
“At that time for the government to move forward, it must follow a kind of standardized process that will ideally coincide with what other big jurisdictions do on that front,” she said, adding that the EU has gone through measures of Similar as part of last year the act of it, but is in the process of refining the way it is dealing with issues to improve transparency and rights reserves.
“There is a constant debate about the efficiency and burden of choice models,” said Chris Mammen, a Womble Bond Dickinson who specializes in the law of technology and he. “On the issue of protection of intimacy and consumer data, the US is widely described as after an Opt-Out model while Europe, with GDPR, follows an opt-in model.”
For this set of changes specifically, “Fear of musicians and other content creators is that models of the one trained for their work will be able to generate new or free new works on an industrial/supercomputer scale , that will make them from income from earning their income from their content to the creation of content, “Mammen said.
“There may still be some guards imposed by his platforms, for example, stopping incentives that require a production” in the style of ‘a specific living artist, “he added.