{"id":18855,"date":"2025-05-18T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/elton-john-calls-uk-government-absolute-losers-over-ai-copyright-plans\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T18:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T16:37:58","slug":"elton-john-calls-uk-government-absolute-losers-over-ai-copyright-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/elton-john-calls-uk-government-absolute-losers-over-ai-copyright-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Elton John calls UK government \u2018absolute losers\u2019 over AI copyright plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Songwriter says he thinks it is a \u2018criminal offence\u2019 to let tech firms use protected work without permission<\/p>\n<p>Sir Elton John has called the UK government \u201cabsolute losers\u201d over proposals to let tech firms use copyright-protected work without permission.<\/p>\n<p>The singer and songwriter said it was a \u201ccriminal offence\u201d to change copyright law in favour of artificial intelligence companies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2025\/may\/18\/elton-john-says-uk-government-being-absolute-losers-over-ai-copyright-plans\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/59002bb2bd76eae7ca75dd14353d3bae3ea682cf\/102_0_2656_2124\/master\/2656.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9beb2641909f678b22cd1c8f4ae2310b\" title=\"Elton John calls UK government \u2018absolute losers\u2019 over AI copyright plans\" \/>Songwriter says he thinks it is a \u2018criminal offence\u2019 to let tech firms use protected work without permission<br \/>\nSir Elton John has called the UK government \u201cabsolute losers\u201d over proposals to let tech firms use copyright-protected work without permission.<br \/>\nThe singer and songwriter said it was a \u201ccriminal offence\u201d to change copyright law in favour of artificial intelligence companies. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songwriter says he thinks it is a \u2018criminal offence\u2019 to let tech firms use protected work without permission Sir Elton John has called the UK government \u201cabsolute losers\u201d over proposals to let tech firms use copyright-protected work without permission. The singer and songwriter said it was a \u201ccriminal offence\u201d to change copyright law in favour &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/18\/elton-john-calls-uk-government-absolute-losers-over-ai-copyright-plans\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elton John calls UK government \u2018absolute losers\u2019 over AI copyright plans<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}