Deacon Blue's Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh have voiced their concerns about the UK Government's planned changes to AI copyright laws.
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00:00Yeah, I think that, you know, yesterday's Silent Album that came out and so on, I think
00:28that was a really good thing.
00:29I think, you know, musicians have got to wake up and, you know, fight back because all these,
00:34you know, when I started in public, for example, when I started in songwriting and publishing,
00:39it was common then for publishers to have 50% of royalties.
00:43You know, we all fought, we fought back against these things.
00:46Things don't happen by osmosis, you know, so it's important for musicians to take charge
00:51of their career and for the music industry to kind of look and see what the future is
00:55and make sure that you're protecting songwriters' rights.
00:59So yes, it's really important, I think.
01:09It's a scary time across, you know, across all these things and it's such a, it's such
01:14a new world that no one really quite knows.
01:16I mean, there's great things, but yeah, don't get me wrong, I'm very excited about what's
01:20going to happen in terms of medical stuff and so on.
01:23But I think, yeah, I think it's, I think we've got to wake up and be quite, quite...
01:36You know, strong enough to be up there.
01:37It has to be regulated, doesn't it?
01:38I mean, it can't just be unleashed, which it seems to be.
01:53But yeah, we need to be very careful.