Donald Trump = Neville Chamberlain

Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide. Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.

How refreshing.

That's not an opinion, it's counting.

Spotify said it would start rolling out a music spam filter to identify uploaders, tag them and stop the tracks from being recommended by its algorithm. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... So true

"Key tools for implementing the AI Act such as the GPAI Code of Practice, the GPAI guidelines and the template for the summary of content used for training by AI providers are toothless and disappointing", @helienne.bsky.social states. 📰 Full interview: bit.ly/4mdM6bt

ECSA's June news is out! 🔵 #AI: joint letter to European Parliament’s JURI Committee 🔵 ECSA President @helienne.bsky.social joins meetings in New York and Biarritz 🔵 Joint call: increase the budget of #CreativeEurope 🔵 EFM, SoundTrack _Cologne, and much more! ➡️ Read: bit.ly/4lqZtVz

A grim reminder to all those who embrace “opt-outs” as a viable way of preventing unauthorized AI use. Even when backed up by technology, they are circumvented! “Meanwhile, there’s an entire online ecosystem of tutorials about how to evade Cloudflare’s bot blocking tools aimed at web scrapers.”

“The writing that AI produces feels cheap because it is cheap. It feels simple because it is simple to produce. That is the whole point. AI is an enormously powerful tool, here to stay, with the capacity for real societal benefits—but the replacement of art and artists isn’t one of them.”

Am in NYC and reminded why it appears many in the US don’t care about what Russia is doing to Ukraine. No news station reported on last night’s bombings of Kyiv. It’s all about this manufactured “national crisis” in LA

As one MP said: “One of our greatest industrial sectors is on fire and ministers are having a picnic on the lawn with the arsonists.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Morelle speculated that there was "surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk's efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models," in reference to the report released by the Copyright Office this week. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

The most powerful man in the world’s response to the escalating tension between India and Pakistan: “Those two countries have been fighting for centuries.” Pakistan was founded in 1947. Pay attention in your history classes kids

Sarah Glennane and James Morris from SCGI along with @helienne.bsky.social president of @ecsa.bsky.social met with Niamh Smyth TD, Minister of State in Department of Enterprise yesterday to discuss our deep concerns around music creators rights and generative AI platforms

Thanks for having me @screencomposersirl.bsky.social

In a court filing today, Google says "absent protection for intellectual property, there exists little reason to invest in developing software". Yet they lobby governments to weaken IP law to allow unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work. ??

Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma. Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Organizations representing millions of creators & rights holders have said the EU’s Code of Practice on AI is “completely unacceptable.” The Code of Practice outlines how the AI Act should be implemented. But creators reject it because: 🧵

… and instead require AI developers to license any copyrighted works before using them to train their AI models.” Spot on. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

The UK Parliament’s Culture, Media & Sport Committee sent a strong message to the government on AI training today: “The Government should abandon its preference for a data mining exception for AI training with rights reservation model…” 🧵

Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit

Jack’s justification for wanting to “delete all IP law”. No mention of what these better models for compensating creators are, or that creators *overwhelmingly* support copyright law. Also copyright is not rent-seeking, it is an incentive to create.

All I can say is, this is Liz Truss economics on steroids

Tesla sales in Sweden are down by 63%. Folksam, one of Sweden’s biggest insurance companies just sold their stocks in Tesla as Tesla’s union-busting behaviour did not align with Folksam’s ethics

Our first panel, titled "Copyright and Generative #AI: Fundamental Challenges for Creators and the Way Forward", just started with insights from Helienne Lindvall @helienne.bsky.social (ECSA), Alexandra Bensamoun (Université Paris-Saclay), Dominick Luquer (FIA) and Julia Niebler-Kaiser (GEMA).

Pardons for people who attack police officers. Deportation for people who attack cars.

Spot on thread by @ednewtonrex.bsky.social on all the wildly misleading claims Peter Kyle made about copyright law and AI in this podcast 👇🏼

Shame, shame, shame on them!

BREAKING: The DOJ has informed European officials that the U.S. is withdrawing from a multinational group established to investigate war crimes in Ukraine and hold those responsible accountable, including Putin, The NYT reports. The US can no longer claim to be the leader of the free world

This actually hits hard because it's my story. My grandparents were forced to leave Europe during WW2 and were denied entry in the U.S, that's how we ended up in Brazil. Now, as an infectious disease researcher, I feel forced to leave again. When politics gets in the way of scientific progress...

This is hideous. And close to inexplicable unless Trump is doing what Putin tells him to.

Our actual enemies *and* the BBC’s commercial rivals hate everything that makes it important & valuable. (And they don’t help themselves much these days in all sorts of ways.) But this is a crucial test of the current government’s resolve.

New plan - we cringe ourselves to Mars

Here’s a link to email Spotify We’ve also discovered these podcasts are on Soundcloud www.collectiveshout.org/contact-spot...

Can you believe Spotify are hosting this “course”? Would hosting this be a breach of the UK’s Online Safety act? Shockingly there’s no way to report this on the Spotify app?!? Source : www.linkedin.com/posts/eloisa...

Our #CreatorsConference takes place on 25 March at the European Parliament in Brussels. Today, we reveal the conference's first panel "Copyright and Generative #AI: Fundamental Challenges for Creators and the Way Forward". We're pleased to introduce the speakers below. ⬇️ ℹ️ More info: bit.ly/4i2GSx3

Speakers: ● Alexandra Bensamoun (Professor of Law at Université Paris-Saclay) ● Dominick Luquer (Secretary General of FIA - International Federation of Actors) ● Julia Niebler-Kaiser (Deputy General Counsel of GEMA) ● Moderator: Helienne Lindvall @helienne.bsky.social (Songwriter, ECSA President)

Just saying … www.forcesnews.com/feature/wins...

quote of the day www.ft.com/content/4221...

Pretty much sums it up

Trump’s Ukraine aid numbers seem to be pulled out of thin air. They’re both reversed (Europe has spent more than the US) and wildly incorrect (nobody is giving anywhere near $350B). My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart

Another mad element of that press conference is that Trump & Vance were ordering Zelensky to thank them personally for aid that Joe Biden had provided. All while insulting Biden & ignoring Zelensky’s frequent previous expressions of gratitude.

“If British music is one of the most powerful exports we have, why have you treated it like an after thought for so many years?" — Myles Smith at the #BRITs The line about grassroots venues was spot on!

Two men operating in two different worlds: Raising his voice, the US president said: “You’re not in a good position. You don’t have the cards right now.” Zelenskyy responded: “I’m not playing cards. I’m very serious, Mr President. I’m the president in a war.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

You know when you’ve been Tango’d

First Bezos muzzles op-ed writers at the Washington Post, now this! Amazon partners with AI music company Suno (currently sued for copyright infringement) for new functionality in Alexa+, allowing users to generate AI songs on command using voice prompts. www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/27/a...

For those who speak Dutch, here’s an interview I did about our Make It Fair AI campaign and Silent Album www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...