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Mar 2025
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Is the music industry ready for AI?

The Observer
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More than 1,000 musicians have released a silent album in protest against new UK government proposals to change copyright law. Will the silence be too deafening for the government to ignore?

Writer: Jess Swinburne

Producer: Katie Gunning

Executive Producer: Rebecca Moore


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