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Legislation needed on AI use to ‘stave off threats’ to music industry – MP

Source: PA Wire

An MP has said that legislation on artificial intelligence use in the UK music industry is needed to “help stave off the threats it poses”.

Kevin Brennan, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Music, made the comments as his organisation released a new report that found that most of the public want regulation to prevent deepfakes of artists such as Dua Lipa and Taylor Swift.

Carried out by Whitestone, the poll of 2,110 British adults revealed that 83% of UK adults agree that a music artist’s creative “personality” should be protected in law against being copied using AI.

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