The legendary musician Paul McCartney warns against the modifications proposed to the British Copyright law which would allow technological companies to freely train their models on online content, unless copyright holders are actively disengage.
In Extracts from an interview with the BBCMcCartney said the government should do more to protect musicians and other artists.
“We are the people, you are the government!” He said. “You are supposed to protect us. It’s your job. So, if you present a bill, be sure to protect creative thinkers, creative artists, otherwise you will not have them.
McCartney is not necessarily opposed to the use of AI in musical creation: indeed, he took advantage of technology last year to clean an old demo of John Lennon and create what McCartney called “the last Beatles disc ”. However, he suggested that AI (or at least AI with a flexible copyright approach) is an economic threat to artists.
“You have young guys, girls who arrive, and they write a beautiful song, and they don’t have it, and they have nothing to do with that, and anyone who wants it to just scam it “, McCartney says.
Adding that “money goes somewhere”, he said that the financial awards for the creation of a successful song should return to the artist, not just “a technology giant somewhere”.
