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BPI today announces a variety of measures designed to provide targeted support to UK catalogue artists, songwriters and session musicians.   These measures result from the adoption of the BPI’s label-led Principles adopted in July 2025 following discussions in the UK government-convened Creator Remuneration Working Group.  Catalogue artists:   Catalogue artists currently or previously signed to la

Background The United States (US) Government has announced new tariffs on imported physical goods which came into effect on 5 April 2025. The purpose of these tariffs is to reportedly: • Reduce the US trade deficit • Encourage companies to move manufacturing to the US  • Rectify “unfair” trade practices Most UK goods are currently subject to the global baseline tariff of 10% on top of existing dut

The BPI today announces a set of principles for UK labels to support legacy artists, songwriters, and session musicians.The principles deliver a package of measures, unique to the UK, developed in consultation with the government-convened Creator Remuneration Working Group (CRWG), and represent the culmination of five years of rigorous analysis and debate in response to the Culture, Media and Spor

On 23 June 2025, the Government published ‘The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy’ alongside bespoke Sector Plans for five of the previously identified eight sectors with the highest growth potential, setting out a vision of each sector’s transformation by 2035. This includes the ‘Creative Industries Sector Plan’ and the ‘Digital and Technologies Sector Plan’.  While the main Industrial Strategy is h

BPI’s Head of Policy and Public Affairs, Beth Sidwell gives an overview of latest activity in relation to copyright and AIFollowing the closure of the UK Government consultation on ‘Copyright and Artificial Intelligence’, BPI has been continuing to raise awareness with Parliamentarians (i.e. Members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords) about our concerns, as well as bring pressure upon

Stars including Lola Young, Myles Smith, Rachel Chinouriri, The Last Dinner Party and more add their voices in calling on UK Government to value and protect copyright, joining the likes of Paul McCartney, Elton John, Dua Lipa, Sam Fender, Kate Bush and others At Saturday’s BRIT Awards 2025 with Mastercard, the biggest night in British music, some of the UK’s biggest acts and rising stars came toge

BPI supports the ‘Make It Fair’ campaign, which is calling on the Government to protect the creative industries in the age of generative AI.Tech companies are using music to train generative AI models without appropriate permission or payment. This presents a serious threat to our valuable industry. In line with the closure of the Government’s consultation, we’re calling on policymakers to ensure

The Government launched a consultation on ‘Copyright and Artificial Intelligence’ in December 2024, following many months of debate about the status of copyrighted material and the ingestion of this material by AI developers without proper payment or permission.The Government has presented four proposed options within its consultation and has stated that its preference is ‘Option 3’. This consists

BPI, representing the UK's recorded music industry, has joined tens of thousands of creatives, creative and rights-holder organisations around the world in support of the Statement on AI Training: “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.”The statement has been supported