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Dan Milmo “Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album” https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/25/kate-bush-damon-albarn-1000-artists-silent-ai-protest-album-copyright

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More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest against UK government plans to let artificial intelligence companies use copyright-protected work without permission, as a celebrity backlash builds against the proposals.
The recordings of dormant music studios and performance spaces, called Is This What We Want?, are being released as leading cultural figures warn livelihoods are under threat from proposed changes to copyright law.
Paul McCartney, Elton John, Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus, the actor Julianne Moore and the authors Val McDermid and Richard Osman are among the celebrities who have called for protection of their work from unlicensed use by tech companies in recent months.
The music-free album represents the impact on artists’ livelihoods if the government pushes ahead with its plans, according to Ed Newton-Rex, the British composer and former AI executive behind the idea.

The project is a protest against a government proposal to let AI firms train their algorithms on the work of creative professionals under a new copyright exemption*1. The plan includes “an opt-out” option – where creatives and companies can block their work from being used – that has been dismissed by critics as unfair and unworkable.
The album contains 12 recordings with more than 1,000 artists credited as co-writers, with the individual artist behind each of the dozen “silent” tracks uncredited. However, it is understood that Kate Bush has recorded one of the dozen tracks in her studio.
Bush said: “In the music of the future, will our voices go unheard?”

The dispute over AI firms’ use of copyrighted work stems from how they create the technology underpinning their products.
The AI models powering systems such as the ChatGPT chatbot, the image creator Stable Diffusion and the music tool Suno are fed vast amounts of data taken from the internet and learn to spot patterns in that information. This allows them to predict the next word in a sentence, create realistic images or produce convincing audio.
However, the use of novels, music tracks, newspaper articles, photographs, art and other copyright-protected work without permission has led to a wave of lawsuits from authors, news publishers, music companies and artists.
Some companies have signed licensing agreements with AI firms, including the Guardian, which has struck a deal with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT*2.