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Laws Must Protect ‘The Guy Who Wrote Yesterday’ From AI, Urges Paul McCartney
The former Beatle said it would become impossible for musicians to make a living from their work.
Paul McCartney performs in London, December 2024 Jo Hale/Getty Images Paul McCartney has urged that musicians be protected from the effects of proposed changes to AI regulation. “When we were kids in Liverpool, we found a job that we loved, but it also paid the bills… You get young guys, girls, coming up, and they write a beautiful song, and they don’t own it, and they don’t have anything to do with it. This comes after McCartney and his fellow surviving Beatle Sir Ringo Starr used AI to extract the late John Lennon’s vocals from a demo left behind, to create a new song Now and Then.
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