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Getty Images Jamie Njoku-Goodwin, OBE, previously served as CEO of U.K. Music and Director of Strategy to the U.K. Prime Minister at No. 10 Downing Street. Variety welcomes responsible commentary, please direct inquiries to [email protected].
In early 2023, I warned that failing to robustly enforce copyright could result in an epidemic of “music laundering.” As the then-Chief Executive of U.K. Music, the collective voice of the British music sector, I was fighting for the interests of creators, record labels, venues and music companies alike. Without proper guardrails, I argued, advances in artificial intelligence would enable technology companies to take people’s music without permission, use it to train their models, then generate clean, seemingly new content with its origins hidden.
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