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We’ve taken the unusual step of clearing our front page today to draw your attention to an issue that could be disastrous not just for local newspapers like the Chronicle and Journal, but the UK’s entire creative sector.

Under changes to copyright laws being proposed by the Government, AI companies will be able to train their systems on text, images, music and any other online content without having to pay the creators of that content for gaining the ability to summarise, recreate or even directly replicate it.

That means that international AI corporations will be able to extract all the value from the work of everyone from artists and musicians to historians........

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