Kate Bush's first album in 14 years is here — but there's a twist. On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the "Running Up That Hill" singer, along with Imogen Heap, Blur's Damon Albarn and hundreds of other musicians released a silent album in protest of AI using their work following a proposed change to the UK's copyright laws.

Over 1,000 musicians have released a silent album to protest against the U.K. government's proposal to allow AI firms to use copyrighted material. If the

The album, Is This What We Want?, was released in protest as the British government weighs changes to copyright and AI policies.

Artists including Kate Bush, Damon Albarn and Annie Lennox are contesting the UK government’s copyright proposals with ‘Is This What We Want?’

A new album is being released today (February 25) in protest at the UK government’s plans to use AI companies use copyrighted work to train their algorithms. The conceptual twist? It’s entirely silent.

With contributions from artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control.

Artists including Kate Bush and Cat Stevens made an album of white noise in empty studios, protesting a U.K. proposal to give AI firms access to copyrighted music.

More than 1,000 musicians - including Annie Lennox, Damon Albarn and Kate Bush - released a silent album on Tuesday in protest at the UK government's planned changes to copyright law, which they say would make it easier for AI companies to train models using copyrighted work without a licence.

According to a statement from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), the UK's "current regime for copyright and AI is holding back the creative industries, media and AI sector from realising their full potential – and that cannot continue".

More than 1,000 artists – including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox of Eurythmics, and Damon Albarn of Blur and The Gorillaz – have released a “silent album” to protest the UK government’s plans to loosen copyright laws around the training of AI.

THE threat of robots stealing musicians’ work has prompted more than 1,000 famous artists to join forces in protest with a “silent album”. Fears are growing over the government’s plans to change

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