Brian May: "Nobody will be able to afford to make music" under UK AI copyright
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KTRU, one of the world's biggest independent stations, still prefers physical records over digital. But even they have now technical support, because they were forced to stream digitally, so they have exact set lists and pay the independents much more. They only play independents, major labels are forbidden.
But AI miners paying nothing is ridicolous.
However, I have distanced myself from the collecting societies long ago and now distribute most of my music for free and under a Creative Commons license on my website (http://rochus-keller.ch/?cat=3).
After analyzing the publicly available financial figures of some collecting societies, it became clear to me that as a musician it is much more helpful if people are able to listen to my music without hindrance (paywalls, etc.), compared to the small amount of revenue that copyrights generate. In my view, copyrights collecting and enforcement are clearly an anachronism that tends to get in the way of most musicians and composers today rather than helping them.
Still, Gen AI won't stop being effective at instant style transfer because of "Don't train on me" laws. The knock on benefits of AI related upstarts in UK will be lost however.