AI generated songs are “diluting the market” he added, with 80,000 new songs being released every day which is “covering over all these amazing new artists that are out there”. <\/p>\n
Ireland should use its presidency of the Council of Europe to show it “cares about our artists”, he said and that new laws should be brought in to ensure fair pay and proper licensing. <\/p>\n
Other legislation could include AI “opt-out rights”, he continued, so artists can consent to their material being used to train AI models, and be compensated for it. <\/p>\n
He also suggested that the Government should ensure no public funding goes towards AI generated content. <\/p>\n
The Sinn F\u00e9in motion sets out a “clear line in the sand” he said “for those who are against musicians in Ireland and those who are for musicians in Ireland”. <\/p>\n
It is being tabled by the party’s Arts and Culture spokesman Aengus \u00d3 Snodaigh. <\/p>\n
Asked about the issue before attending a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday morning, Research, Innovation and Science Minister James Lawless said while he is “sympathetic” to the situation musicians find themselves in, it is a “difficult” and “complex” issue. <\/p>\n
“I don’t think, in honesty, it’s going to be solved by a private members’ bill from opposition put through in the last week of the D\u00e1il,” he said. <\/p>\n
“I’m not saying that in any way to be derogatory towards the efforts of Sinn F\u00e9in to legislate on it.” <\/p>\n
Mr Lawless said he had listened to Mr O’Donoghue with “great interest” and said there is a need for European regulation on the matter, which the Government will “engage” with. <\/p>\n
“But I think we do have to move quickly on it,” he continued. <\/p>\n
“I think it’s a very real and present danger to the musical industry right now, and we need to be engaged on that, and we need to support the musical industry in protecting their copyright and their intellectual property.” <\/p>\n
Speaking to reporters, he said politicians “are also subject to scraping and deep fakes, and having our images, our speech patterns repeated and put out there”. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Intellectual property theft is happening on an “industrial scale” thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[343,246352,246348,246347,146,85,246350,30249,246349,46,211309,246351,104831],"class_list":["post-540977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-copyright-laws","tag-copyright-of-irish-artists","tag-danny-odonoghue","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-industrial-scale","tag-intellectual-property","tag-irish-parliament","tag-israel","tag-james-lawless","tag-morning-ireland","tag-sinn-fein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}