{"id":3838,"date":"2025-09-17T16:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T16:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/?p=3838"},"modified":"2025-09-22T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:14:51","slug":"creators-accuse-ai-companies-of-mass-human-rights-abuses-in-open-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/creators-accuse-ai-companies-of-mass-human-rights-abuses-in-open-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Creators Accuse AI Companies of Mass Human Rights Abuses in Open Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Music creators and organisations from across the UK\u2019s creative industries have called on Prime Minister&nbsp;<strong>Keir Starmer&nbsp;<\/strong>to explain why he has failed to stand up for the human rights of British creators in the context of AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the AI grievances of British creators are ultimately rooted in copyright law, a new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/interspacemusic.com\/blog\/open-letter-from-uk-creators-to-prime-minister-keir-starmer-on-ai\/\">open letter<\/a>\u00a0hones in on human rights and international law &#8211; to which Starmer\u2019s government has made an \u201cunqualified commitment\u201d &#8211; and which, it says, are being \u201cflouted en masse by predominantly overseas tech companies\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Timed to concede with&nbsp;<strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s controversial visit to the UK, because many of those \u201coverseas tech companies\u201d are based in the US, the letter is signed by Becky Hill, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jessie Ware, Neil Tennant, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, Sam Smith, Skin, Robert Smith and Sting, among many other musicians and creators working in other artforms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explaining his support for the letter, The Cure\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Robert Smith<\/strong>&nbsp;states, \u201cThe UK government should not be valuing corporate interests above the rights of its citizens. It should not be giving away our cultural heritage and our creative future to Silicon Valley\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then adds, \u201cIt should instead be standing up to the big tech AI companies that continue to ignore the many long-established laws of copyright. Artists and creators must retain control over their own work; any eroding of this basic right is simply wrong\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter itself acknowledges that the government undertook a formal consultation on copyright and AI earlier this year, and continues to consult stakeholders in the creative and AI industries, with the plan to propose changes to the law at some point in the next year. That may involve amending copyright law, in ways that favour either AI companies or the creative industries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it then argues, as it currently stands many AI companies are infringing UK copyrights at a massive scale by copying existing copyright protected works as they train generative AI models without getting permission from creators or copyright owners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And, it insists, the government should be standing up for creators and rights owners, for example by forcing transparency obligations onto AI companies that would make it easier for rightsholders to enforce their rights through the courts. Such as the transparency obligations that were proposed in the House Of Lords earlier this year and then blocked by the government.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The letter then points to the international human rights law that the creators reckon is being breached by the copyright infringing AI companies. 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