Music stars release silent album in protest against UK AI copyright plans

Is This What We Want features recordings of empty studios, performance spaces, highlighting danger to creative trade.

More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Cat Stevens and Annie Lennox, have released a silent album in protest of the proposed changes to British copyright laws around artificial intelligence (AI), which they warned could lead to legalised music theft.

The album, titled Is This What We Want, was launched on Tuesday and features recordings of empty studios and…