BPI CEO Dr Jo Twist OBE responds to the AI Opportunities Action Plan
15 January 2025 - Press release"While there is much to welcome in the ambitions of the AI Action Plan to improve public services and ways of working, this publication does nothing to explain why upending our gold standard copyright system is required to achieve these goals. AI’s potential can be realised by growing both the creative and AI sectors, without resorting to destroying the UK's status as a creative superpower.
We remain unclear as to why AI firms should be allowed to plunder the creative industries, taking music for their own profit without authorisation or compensation, or how this would support the public service outcomes the Government is pursuing.
The Prime Minister told Parliament before Christmas that they would “carefully consider” responses to its consultation, and that the creative industries “have been the unsung heroes of our economy for far too long”. Government must heed its own promise and ensure there is genuine consultation to recognise and meaningfully address the grave concerns being raised across the UK’s £125 billion-per-year creative industries."
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