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Personality-rights

UK music creators on AI: 91% want consent, 93% want payment, and the producers who use it most agree
UK Music's This Is Music 2025 report asked music creators what they think about AI. Big majorities want consent, payment, labelling and voice rights. The producers, the group most likely to use AI tools and most positive about them, back consent and payment almost as strongly as everyone else, so using AI and opposing unlicensed training are not in conflict.
10 Oct 2026AIvia UK Music
Murphy Campbell's AI clones show what a right to your voice can and can't fix
AI covers built from North Carolina folk singer Murphy Campbell's YouTube performances appeared on streaming services under her name, then her own videos of public-domain songs were hit with copyright claims. The Musicians' Union now uses her case to argue for UK personality rights. Her story suggests a right on paper is only the first of three things artists need.
20 Jul 2026Artist rightsvia Musicians' Union

UK music creators on AI: 91% want consent, 93% want payment, and the producers who use it most agree