{"id":243230,"date":"2026-07-14T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/the-script-frontman-backs-sinn-feins-artificial-intelligence-motion\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:30:13","slug":"the-script-frontman-backs-sinn-feins-artificial-intelligence-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/14\/the-script-frontman-backs-sinn-feins-artificial-intelligence-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Script frontman backs Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s artificial intelligence motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pa.media\/blogs\/pa-uplifting\/the-script-frontman-backs-sinn-feins-artificial-intelligence-motion\/\">The Script frontman backs Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s artificial intelligence motion<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pa.media\/blogs\/pa-uplifting\/the-script-frontman-backs-sinn-feins-artificial-intelligence-motion\/\">https:\/\/pa.media\/blogs\/pa-uplifting\/the-script-frontman-backs-sinn-feins-artificial-intelligence-motion\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-14 16:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"pa.media\">pa.media<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Danny O&#8217;Donoghue, lead singer of Irish pop group The Script, claims that 125 of his and the band&#8217;s songs were illegally used by major AI companies for training purposes, which he terms as &#8220;intellectual property theft on an industrial scale&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>O&#8217;Donoghue has endorsed the Sinn F\u00e9in motion &#8220;Protecting the Copyright of Irish Artists in the era of Artificial Intelligence&#8221; to be debated in the Irish Parliament to tackle this issue.<\/li>\n<li>He emphasized the impact on both established and lower-level musicians, stating that existing copyright laws are insufficient in protecting their intellectual property.<\/li>\n<li>O\u2019Donoghue argues that AI-generated music is diluting the market by overwhelming new talent with 80,000 new songs released daily.<\/li>\n<li>He proposes that Ireland use its presidency of the Council of Europe to advocate for stronger laws, including AI &#8220;opt-out rights&#8221; for artists, fair pay, and proper licensing.<\/li>\n<li>Research, Innovation and Science Minister James Lawless expresses sympathy toward the issue but also points out its complexity and the need for European-level regulation to adequately address it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Script frontman backs Sinn F\u00e9in\u2019s artificial intelligence motion https:\/\/pa.media\/blogs\/pa-uplifting\/the-script-frontman-backs-sinn-feins-artificial-intelligence-motion\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-14 16:08:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/content.assets.pressassociation.io\/2026\/07\/14121441\/2bd01753-b79b-4863-9b6a-9f77674befff.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-243230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243232,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243230\/revisions\/243232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}