Elton John, Dua Lipa Urge UK to Rethink AI Copyright Plans

Top UK artists, including Paul McCartney, Elton John and Dua Lipa, urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to strengthen copyright protections ahead of a critical vote on rules governing artificial intelligence next week.

Kate Bush, Ian McKellen and Simon Rattle are also among more than 400 signatories of an open letter that says proposed legislative changes leave creators vulnerable to “years of copyright theft.”

“We will lose an immense growth opportunity if we give our work away at the behest of a handful of powerful overseas tech companies and with it our future income,” they wrote in the letter published ...