LONDON: Two of Britain’s leading song images, Elton John and Paul McCartney, urged the British government on Sunday to defend creative artists from AI, as ministers demand on changing trademark laws.
The government of prime minister Keir Starmer is considering changing the law to allow AI designers to use designers ‘ website content to create their designs, unless right holders choose not to.
The proposed changes could lead to tech companies being able to use website content without violating copyright when using it for words or data mining.
However, critics, including John and McCartney, the legendary pop music musicians, remonstrate how artists can opt out of the numerous different AI companies ‘ conceptual programs or keep an eye on what has happened to their job online.
The “wheels are in motion,” John told The Sunday Times, “allows AI firms to ride roughshod over the conventional copyright laws that protect designers ‘ lives.”
This will enable worldwide, big tech companies to get free and simple access to designers ‘ job to teach their artificial intelligence and produce music that rivals their own. “
The 77-year-old behind hits including” Rocket Man” and” Tiny Dancer” warned this will “dilute and threaten young artists ‘ earnings” and that” the musician community rejects it wholeheartedly”.
The state has indicated that it will use its discussion period, which will run until February 25 to address important issues, such as how creators may obtain licenses and receive compensation for their work.
‘ Loss of creativity ‘
Starmer has recently stated that the government needs to “get the balance right” between AI and copyright, while citing the tech as” a large opportunity.”
Finance secretary Rachel Reeves insisted” we want to help artists” when asked about the ideas in a BBC interview on Sunday.
One of the two surviving people of The Beatles, McCartney, 82, echoed concerns that the programs may lessen the motivation for writers and artists to write new materials and lead to a “loss of creativity.”
In a rare meeting, he told the BBC any new regulations regarding trademark may “protect the creative philosophers, the imaginative musicians”, warning “you’re not going to have them” without that.
” You get younger men, women, coming off, and they write a wonderful music, and they don’t own it, and they don’t have anything to do with it. And anyone who wants you only pull it off,” he said.
” The truth is, the vote’s going there… Somebody’s getting paid, so why shouldn’t it be the guy who sat down and wrote’ Yesterday’? “
In 2023, Ringo Starr and McCartney used AI to collect John Lennon’s lyrics from a lacked-a-solution, decades-old music and create a new record called” Now and Then.”
” I think AI is wonderful, and it can do lots of great stuff,” McCartney told the BBC in the unique meeting, adding “it has its uses.
” But it shouldn’t pull creative people out. There’s no feeling in that. “
