Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa call on the UK to pass AI copyright transparency law

Dua Lipa performs connected May 12th successful Spain. | Photo by Aldara Zarraoa/Redferns for ABA

Last week, Paul McCartney, Dua Lipa, Ian McKellen, Elton John, and hundreds of others successful the UK originative manufacture signed an unfastened letter backing an effort to unit AI firms to uncover the copyrighted works utilized to bid their models.  They enactment an amendment to the UK’s Data (Use and Access) Bill projected by missive organizer Beeban Kidron, adding the requirement, which the UK authorities has opposed.

The British House of Lords passed the amendment yesterday, 272 to 125, reports The Guardian, and present it’s going backmost to the House of Commons, wherever the amendment could beryllium removed again. The British authorities says the combat implicit the amendment “is holding backmost some the originative and tech sectors and needs to beryllium resolved by caller legislation,” writes The Guardian. 

From the letter:

We volition suffer an immense maturation accidental if we springiness our enactment distant astatine the behest of a fistful of almighty overseas tech companies, and with it our aboriginal income, the UK’s presumption arsenic a originative powerhouse, and immoderate anticipation that the exertion of regular beingness volition embody the values and laws of the United Kingdom.

Also signed by galore media companies, euphony publishers, and arts organizations, the missive insists that the amendments “will spur a dynamic licensing marketplace that volition heighten the relation of quality creativity successful the UK, positioning america arsenic a cardinal subordinate successful the planetary AI proviso chain.”

Companies like OpenAI and Meta person been accused successful tribunal of utilizing copyrighted worldly without support to bid their models. Baroness Beeban Kidron, who tabled the amendment, writes that though the UK’s originative industries invited originative advancements enabled by AI, “…how AI is developed and who it benefits are 2 of the astir important questions of our time.” 

“My lords,” The Guardian quotes Kidron arsenic saying yesterday, “it is an battle connected the British system and it is happening astatine standard to a assemblage worthy £120bn to the UK, an manufacture that is cardinal to the concern strategy and of tremendous taste import.”