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

February 25, 2025February 25, 2025 by Farhan

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 … Read more

Hezbollah chief says group won’t ‘be silent’ after killing of Hamas leader

January 4, 2024January 4, 2024 by Farhan

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah offers condolences to Hamas after the killing of its deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri. The head of Lebanon’s powerful armed group Hezbollah says the killing of the deputy chief of allied Palestinian faction Hamas in Beirut was “a major, dangerous crime about which we cannot be silent”. In a televised speech on Wednesday, … Read more