“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.”

Signatories (50,544)

Björn Ulvaeus, Songwriter

Sir John Rutter, Composer and Conductor

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro, Novelist

Julianne Moore

Thom Yorke, Musician

James Patterson, Author

Kate Bush, Singer-songwriter

Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor

Kevin Bacon

Sir Ian Rankin, Novelist

Stephen Fry

Miriam Margolyes OBE

Charles Dance OBE

Hugh Bonneville

Kit Harington, Actor

Hayley Atwell

Alan Ayckbourn, Playwright

Antony Gormley, Sculptor

Freddie Fox

Olivia Williams

Kate McKinnon

Roger Daltrey CBE, Musician, Actor

Kate Mosse CBE, Author

Malorie Blackman OBE, Author

Max Richter, Composer

Rosario Dawson

William Boyd CBE, Novelist

Val McDermid, Writer

Tracy Chevalier, Author

F. Murray Abraham

Melissa Joan Hart

Rosie O’Donnell

Professor Jim Al-Khalili CBE FRS, Scientist, Author, Broadcaster

Tom Holland, Author and podcaster

Billy Bragg, Songwriter and author

Lady Antonia Fraser, Author

Roger McGough CBE, Poet

Geoff Barrow, Producer & Composer

Margaret Drabble DBE, Author

Peter Frankopan, Professor of Global History at Oxford University, Author

Cressida Cowell MBE, Author

Robert Smith, Musician

Ed O’Brien, Musician

Joe Goddard, Musician

Philip Selway, Musician

Jason Kay, Musician

Nitin Sawhney CBE, D.Mus, Composer / producer

Paula Hawkins, Writer

Lynn Goldsmith, Photographer , Painter

James Runcie, Writer

Ted Chiang, Writer

Joanne Harris, Author

Emma Donoghue, Writer

Philippa Gregory, Historian Novelist Playwright

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

Colin Greenwood, Musician

Elizabeth Fremantle, Author

Madeline Miller, Writer

Sean Astin, Actor

Emily St. John Mandel, Writer

Ann Patchett, Writer

AURORA, Musician

Harlan Coben, Author

Imogen Heap, Recording artist, founder of Auracles.io

Nigel Hinds OBE, Arts consultant

Dame Caroline Dinenage DBE MP, Chair of the Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee

Alex Sobel MP, co-chair of UK Parliament Music Group

Pete Wishart MP, Co-chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music

Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP

John Slinger MP

Tom Morrison MP

John Whitby MP

Lord Clement-Jones CBE

Baroness Beeban Kidron, Crossbench Peer, House of Lords

Jane Bonham-Carter, Parliamentarian-Peer

Lord Foster of Bath

Lord Oates

Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay, former Minister for Arts & Heritage