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It’s grand theft AI and UK ministers are behind it. Oppose this robbery of people’s creativity Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alastair Webber


The plan to weaken copyright law, allowing tech firms to rob this country’s creative talent, is an outrage, say composer and impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber and his son, music industry executive Alastair Webber

AI will flood the market with machine-generated imitations, undercutting human creativity and destroying industries that drive jobs, tourism and Britain’s cultural identity. Global AI firms will extract UK intellectual property while continuing their operations elsewhere, leaving British creators at a disadvantage. The alternative is, as she told the House of Lords last month, that we continue the “delusion that the UK’s best interest and economic future aligns with those of Silicon Valley”.

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