Over 11,500 creatives, including prominent artists Thom Yorke, Björn Ulvaeus, Max Richter, and Billy Bragg, have signed a petition demanding stronger regulations for AI training using copyrighted works.

The Human Artistry Campaign organized the petition in response to the UK government's proposed changes to copyright law, which would allow AI companies to train on copyrighted works without licensing.

"The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works and must not be permitted," states the petition.

In the United States, several major tech companies face legal challenges:

• OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity are facing lawsuits over copyrighted training data
• The Wall Street Journal and New York Post have sued Perplexity for alleged copyright infringement
• Perplexity is accused of copying hundreds of thousands of articles without permission for its RAG database
• The lawsuit claims Perplexity can generate detailed summaries of paywall-protected content

The creative community seeks to ensure AI development strengthens rather than undermines the creative ecosystem, while maintaining fair compensation for original works.

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