Thousands Of British Musicians Involved In The Release Of The Bisu Album As Protests Against AI

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JAKARTA - The silent album titled 'Is This What We Want?' comes to Spotify. The album involves more than 1,000 British musicians who are dissatisfied with the UK government's plans to change copyright laws.

Musicians protested that the changes to the law would make it easier for artificial intelligence (AI) companies to train models using copyrighted works without a license.

"In future music, will our voices not be heard?" Kate Bush said in a statement, citing the BBC, Wednesday, February 26.

The album contains 12 tracks, which if read sequenced to The British Government Must Not Legacy Music Theft To Benefit AI Companies (The British Government Should Not Legalize Music Theft for AI Company Benefits).

All the advantages obtained from the release of this silent album will be donated to the charity Help Musicians.

The musicians involved in this album include Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn, Kate Bush, Ocean, Ed O'Brien, Dan Smith, The Clash, Mystery Jets to Jamiloquai

The Track features voice recordings from an empty studio and showroom showing what artists fear as a potential impact of the proposed law changes.

Currently, the UK government is known to be consulting on proposals that would allow AI companies to use online available material without respect for copyright if they use it for text or data mining.

The generative AI program mines or learns from a number of big data such as text, images, or online music to produce new content that feels like being made by humans.

Protests against plans to change copyright laws in the UK have indeed been in the spotlight in recent times.

In January, Sir Paul McCartney said that a proposed copyright law change could allow mock technology that might make musicians and artists unable to make a living.