Over 11,500 creative professionals, including prominent artists Thom Yorke, Björn Ulvaeus, Max Richter, and Billy Bragg, have signed a petition demanding stricter 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 agreements.

"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.

Several AI companies face legal challenges in the United States:

• OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity are battling lawsuits over copyright infringement
• The Wall Street Journal and New York Post have sued Perplexity for unauthorized use of their content
• Perplexity is accused of copying hundreds of thousands of articles for its RAG database
• The lawsuit claims Perplexity can generate detailed summaries of paywall-protected content

The creative community seeks responsible AI development that strengthens rather than undermines the creative ecosystem, while AI companies like Anthropic argue their use of copyrighted material constitutes "fair use" under current law - a defense that will soon be tested in court.

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