{"id":6780,"date":"2025-11-18T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/paul-mccartney-joins-ai-protest-with-silent-track-152198\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:39:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T10:39:14","slug":"paul-mccartney-joins-ai-protest-with-silent-track-152198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/paul-mccartney-joins-ai-protest-with-silent-track-152198\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul McCartney joins AI protest with \u2018silent\u2019 track"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"post-preview\">\n<p>Paul McCartney has contributed a new &#8216;silent&#8217; track to the album, Is This What We Want?.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content google-ld-json\">\n<div class=\"editable-content\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 is-style-3d\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-green-cyan-background-color has-background wp-element-button\"><strong>Click here and subscribe to Uncut<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p>Paul McCartney has contributed a new \u2018silent\u2019 track to the album, Is This What We Want?.<\/p>\n<p>The release protests against the\u00a0UK government\u2019s planned changes to copyright law, which would make it easier to train AI models on copyrighted work without a licence.<\/p>\n<p>Originally released digitally in February, the album consisted of 12 tracks, featuring recordings of empty studios and performance spaces, representing the impact on artists\u2019 and music professionals\u2019 livelihoods that is expected if the government does not change course. Kate Bush and Damon Albarn were among the 1,000 artists credited as co-writers.<\/p>\n<p>The album is released on vinyl on December 8, with McCartney\u2019s composition as a bonus track: a recording of an empty studio. The vinyl is being released by The state51 Conspiracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The vinyl is available for pre-order at <a href=\"https:\/\/1000artists.greedbag.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a> for \u00a328. All profits from sales will be donated to the musicians\u2019 charity Help Musicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/news\/paul-mccartney-joins-ai-protest-with-silent-track-152198\/\">Paul McCartney joins AI protest with \u2018silent\u2019 track<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncut.co.uk\/\">UNCUT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul McCartney has contributed a new &#8216;silent&#8217; track to the album, Is This What We Want?. Click here and subscribe to Uncut Paul McCartney has contributed a new \u2018silent\u2019 track&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,383],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-paul-mccartney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}