Our colleague, activist & AI rights expert, Dr @Mathilde_Pavis has created a vital AI Deal Checklist on what artists and agents should look for when engaging. Even better, she has authorised us to share it for free. 🥹🙏🏻 Find it via our linktree here: https://t.co/IK09dosi62

Audio artists: use our new recommended min. rates & best practice for recording audiobooks. The guidance has been put together by Equity’s audio committee while we continue to fight for a collective agreement in the industry, so that all audio artists are guaranteed decent pay.

FFS.

New details today reveal the extent of US tech companies’ influence on UK AI policy 🤯: - Google’s head of AI (Demis Hassabis) was invited to “sense check” @UKLabour’s new AI policy as soon as Labour came to power - Google met with the government 46 times in the run-up to the AI

*looks to camera*

Lots to say about @ScotRail’s decision to sack their original announcer voice and to use GayannePotter’s AI voice (Iona) without her express consent or knowledge. @ScotProcurement is supposed to fall under the Fair Work First framework. Gig economy workers included. Diligence ?

✊🏼✊🏼 #StopAIStealingTheShow

In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright. The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them. Most

Congratulations @paulwfleming - a political mind who takes an interest in the past. The past informs the present. Going forward, @EquityUK must turn away from performative activism/utopianism and be results driven. The devil is in the detail, the membership know the answers.

Season 2 ends with reflections on the long-running soap opera that is AI regs. We chooses what we consider to be a Win, one Fail and a Prediction. In best soap opera tradition we have heroes and villains, an evil twin, a dream sequence, and a cat called Cyrano. 🔗 in bio 🎧

Delete all IP law, says Jack Dorsey, founder of this platform and of Bluesky . The current owner says the same. Now why would two billionaire tech giants, who control spectacular amounts of data, want that ?

Hot off the press. A brand new report has landed. Same old, same old? We think not! The Report into British Film and High-End Television has been published by @DCMS committee. We focus on what it says about IP and AI and give our conclusions. Clink 🔗 in bio to 🎧

Our Vice Chair Leonor points up that Games Producers in the UK have little to no regard for union contracts at the @BAFTA Games Awards. If they can take the tax breaks, they can respect the talent @UKLabour

The response from @OpenAI to UK TDM/copyright consultation is full of weasel phrases and really tries to work the *UK has a unique chance to stuff Europe on AI*, angle. I switch off when “commercially sensitive” is used to describe data sets containing stolen/unlicensed data.

The 3rd international AI Summit in Paris. Mathilde was the recipient of a golden ticket and can therefore spill the beans on what actually happens at these global summits. What was it like to be an invited guest, milling about with tech bros and world leaders? Link in bio to 👂

s my dad was a musician and as I went to @guildhallschool which trains classical musicians as well as actors, I often cite the plight of instrumentalists in streaming. So glad that @WeAreTheMU are highlighting this. ER in streaming vital for performers. https://t.co/cjMxf4isji

A vote for @paulwfleming is a vote for continuity. Change can feel slow & collectively we’re a hard bunch to please, but the union is doing good work. Paul is about better pay/ conditions for members, has clarity of purpose and has been a galvanising force in the last 5 years.

Go Spain: https://t.co/mCQX0EXjh7

Late 2024, @The_IPO launched a Consultation on Copyright and AI. In this ep we ask Tim Carter, solicitor turned tech consultant, who’s worked with tech companies of all sizes, from Google to Flawless AI , whether govt is open to consultation or just open to Big Tech? 🔗 in bio.

Solidarity. @UVA_Federation and @les_voix. Well done to these French artists who have all refused to work on this title, @EquityAudio https://t.co/jXg9BmzbUs