Tech firms should pay the creators whose work they use | Letter

It could raise up to £300m a year, providing UK creators with additional income, write Barbara Hayes , Tayyiba Nasser , Christian Zimmermann and Paul Seheult Anthropic’s proposal ( AI firm Anthropic to commit 5% of shares to fund for ‘public good’, 19 October ) raises an important question: who should benefit from technological progress?

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Before pledging money for the public good, AI companies such as Anthropic should first pay the creators whose work they use. Device manufacturers have a separate responsibility under the same principle: creators should share in the value their work generates. Smartphones, computers and other devices enable creative work to be copied and stored, yet UK creators receive no private-copying payments, unlike their counterparts in more than 40 other countries.

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