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Paul McCartney joins music industry protest against AI with silent track (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 11 months ago by LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Former Beatle and artists including Sam Fender, Kate Bush and Hans Zimmer record silent LP Is This What We Want

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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (3 children)

WTF, Paul McCartney want's to pay him royalty's for the silence?

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 17 points 11 months ago*

Worked for Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence - so well that Disturbed covered it about a decade ago.

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[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago

Yes exactly, Paul McCartney want is to pay him royalty is for the silence, as a form of protest against Spotify paying out "AI artists".

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 point 11 months ago

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