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Sony, FT among 400 asking UK prime minister to change data bill on AI copyright

( May 12, 2025, 08:47 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: More than 400 leading creative artists, including Kate Bush, Elton John, Dua Lipa and Antony Gormley — along with media organizations such as the FT, Mail Newspapers, News Media Association and publishers including Sony Music, Warner and Pan Macmillan — have written to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to urge him to accept a change to the data reform bill to be debated in Parliament today. The amendment brought by senior lawmaker Beeban Kidron uses transparency requirements on AI developers to state what copyright data they use for model training to build a licensing ecosystem and combat a government proposal to allow the scraping of works unless the right holder opts out.The combined press release and letter is attached....

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