Sir Mick Jagger and Sir Paul McCartney are among dozens of British music stars who have demanded that the Government stops AI stealing their life’s work.
The legendary Rolling Stones and Beatles stars have joined forces with Sir Elton John, Sting, Annie Lennox, Kate Bush and Robbie Williams to urge immediate action on copyright theft by American Big Tech firms.
They are among more than 70 leading creative artists and publishers who have called on Sir Keir Starmer to protect their rights before he agrees a UK-US tech pact with Donald Trump during this week’s state visit.
In a letter to the Prime Minister published on Tuesday, the stars say that artists have enjoyed protection for their works under international law and conventions for more than a century - but that this is now being ‘flouted en masse by predominantly overseas tech companies’ to the detriment of Britain’s £127billion creative industries.
They say AI firms have digested ‘millions of copyright works without permission or payment’ – yet ministers have blocked attempts to force AI firms to reveal when they have used protected material.
