Luke Hawthorne

In an open letter addressed to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, more than 400 of the UK’s most celebrated artists and creative leaders, including Elton John, Coldplay, Dua Lipa, Paul McCartney, and Shakespeare’s Globe, urged the UK Parliament to protect copyright, ‘the lifeblood of the creative industries.’  The icons expressed their support for an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill that could have reshaped the relationship between the creative industries and AI developers by requiring AI companies to disclose which copyrighted works have been used to train their models.