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Music & AIA day after calling for a CMA investigation into Universal, the majors proved the argument themselves. This isn't about protecting artists from AI. It's about controlling who gets access to it.
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Music & AII write lyrics and melodies by hand, and have since I was sixteen. No AI, no committee of Nashville songwriters. So why does the industry's AI outrage ring so hollow? A case for the UK government to act.
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Creators' rightsCreative-industry incumbents are peddling doom about the latest technology that threatens their cosy business models. A look at what the 'Make It Fair' campaign isn't telling the public.
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AI policyThe UK is at a pivotal moment in the global AI race. Time to wake up to the reality of where we stand, and what it will take to lead rather than follow.
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AI policyThe decision not to sign the Paris AI Summit Declaration sparked debate, but the reasoning is more nuanced than a simple refusal. At its heart: intellectual property.
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Industry critiqueWeb Summit is pushing the line that we've 'over-invested in AI', just as global AI spending accelerates. A look at the market tone-deafness behind the narrative.
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Creators' rightsA response to the 'stop resisting' school of AI evangelism, and the case for creators whose work has been co-opted to train models without consent.
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AI governanceThere's a new sheriff in town from Brussels, in the guise of the EU AI Act. How the three biggest jurisdictions are diverging on AI regulation, and what it means.
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AI governanceThe answer to the regulation-versus-innovation bind lies in a balancing act: governments providing the legal bedrock, industry helping define the standards, international agreement levelling the field.
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Responsible AIAs we interact more with AI, the instinct to attribute human characteristics to it grows, creating opportunities but also real personal and societal challenges.
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Open sourceHeavyweights like Google and OpenAI have long held court, but concerns over openness, fairness and AI monopolisation are giving the open-source underdogs their opening.
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Responsible AIIn the brouhaha over the existential threat of AI, we're suffering more from a plague of Hollywood-fuelled imagination than from the technology itself.
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AI safetyFrom the AI Fringe Hub in London: a deep look at AI safety in practice, its stakeholders and its evolving definition, opening with Francine Bennett of the Ada Lovelace Institute.
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AI safetyDay 3 of the AI Fringe: a diverse panel on AI and the film industry, intellectual property and creators' rights, and the nuances of synthetic media for performers.
Read on LinkedIn ↗Most writing about artificial intelligence falls into one of two camps: breathless hype or reflexive doom. Neither survives contact with the detail. These articles sit in the gap between the two, testing the claims made by the music industry, by campaigners, by conference stages and by governments against how AI systems, copyright law and international standards actually work.
The recurring threads are the ones Matthew works on daily: how creators get paid in an AI economy, how the EU AI Act and standards such as ISO/IEC 8183 translate into practice, and where AI policy in the UK, US and Europe is genuinely diverging. Everything here was first published on LinkedIn, where the debate continues in the comments. If a piece sparks a disagreement worth having, that is the point.