Helienne
@helienne.bsky.social
Pro songwriter and former columnist for the Guardian, President, European Composer & Songwriter Alliance (ECSA). Views are my own. 🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇸🇪🇺
www.forbes.com/sites/laurab... I already knew it, but nice that Forbes agrees that I live in the best city in the world. Proof of the benefits of multiculturalism. Take that Farage!
The 100 Best Cities In The World To Live, Work And Visit, Rated In A 2025 Resonance Report
Looking for the best cities in the world? What about the best cities to live in the U.S.? A new report has the answers.
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 PM
www.forbes.com/sites/laurab... I already knew it, but nice that Forbes agrees that I live in the best city in the world. Proof of the benefits of multiculturalism. Take that Farage!
Donald Trump = Neville Chamberlain
October 18, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Donald Trump = Neville Chamberlain
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Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.
Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
September 29, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Happiness, humour, truth and, most crucially, courage are the qualities needed to repel the racist tide.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.
Because its architects offer whining, victimhood, lies and, most crucially, cowardice.
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How refreshing.
Jon Kay didn't let Zia Yusuf get away with his misrepresentation of the prime minister's words.
'He Didn't': BBC Presenter Blasts Reform Chief Over False Claim Starmer Called Voters Racist
Jon Kay didn't let Zia Yusuf get away with his misrepresentation of the prime minister's words.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 6:26 AM
How refreshing.
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That's not an opinion, it's counting.
TUC boss says Reform UK are pushing policies of the National Front of the 1970s
EXCLUSIVE: TUC boss says Reform UK are pushing policies of the National Front of the 1970s
Nowak said that the best way for the government to tackle the rise of Reform UK was by delivering change.
leftfootforward.org
September 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
That's not an opinion, it's counting.
Spotify said it would start rolling out a music spam filter to identify uploaders, tag them and stop the tracks from being recommended by its algorithm. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
Spotify removes 75m spam tracks in past year as AI increases ability to make fake music
Streamer to crack down on AI-generated spam by introducing filter to identify fraudulent uploads
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Spotify said it would start rolling out a music spam filter to identify uploaders, tag them and stop the tracks from being recommended by its algorithm. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
Tommy Robinson’s march was a drunken, coked-up mess
He claimed the world was watching, but most of London barely noticed - and much of what was on view was appalling
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
“Bustling crowds wait for overwhelmingly non-white shop staff to serve up their alcohol, never wondering about who would turn up to scrub Westminster station clean of their urine at the end of the day.” www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...
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"Key tools for implementing the AI Act such as the GPAI Code of Practice, the GPAI guidelines and the template for the summary of content used for training by AI providers are toothless and disappointing", @helienne.bsky.social states.
📰 Full interview: bit.ly/4mdM6bt
📰 Full interview: bit.ly/4mdM6bt
Helienne Lindvall: Secure authors' rights in the AI Act, funding and a European strategy for music
<p>Helienne Lindvall, President of the European Composer & Songwriter Alliance (ECSA) talks to CU about rising authors' challenges in the AI era and their focus on securing consent, remuneration and t...
bit.ly
August 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"Key tools for implementing the AI Act such as the GPAI Code of Practice, the GPAI guidelines and the template for the summary of content used for training by AI providers are toothless and disappointing", @helienne.bsky.social states.
📰 Full interview: bit.ly/4mdM6bt
📰 Full interview: bit.ly/4mdM6bt
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ECSA's June news is out!
🔵 #AI: joint letter to European Parliament’s JURI Committee
🔵 ECSA President @helienne.bsky.social joins meetings in New York and Biarritz
🔵 Joint call: increase the budget of #CreativeEurope
🔵 EFM, SoundTrack _Cologne, and much more!
➡️ Read: bit.ly/4lqZtVz
🔵 #AI: joint letter to European Parliament’s JURI Committee
🔵 ECSA President @helienne.bsky.social joins meetings in New York and Biarritz
🔵 Joint call: increase the budget of #CreativeEurope
🔵 EFM, SoundTrack _Cologne, and much more!
➡️ Read: bit.ly/4lqZtVz
July 1, 2025 at 7:18 AM
ECSA's June news is out!
🔵 #AI: joint letter to European Parliament’s JURI Committee
🔵 ECSA President @helienne.bsky.social joins meetings in New York and Biarritz
🔵 Joint call: increase the budget of #CreativeEurope
🔵 EFM, SoundTrack _Cologne, and much more!
➡️ Read: bit.ly/4lqZtVz
🔵 #AI: joint letter to European Parliament’s JURI Committee
🔵 ECSA President @helienne.bsky.social joins meetings in New York and Biarritz
🔵 Joint call: increase the budget of #CreativeEurope
🔵 EFM, SoundTrack _Cologne, and much more!
➡️ Read: bit.ly/4lqZtVz
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A grim reminder to all those who embrace “opt-outs” as a viable way of preventing unauthorized AI use. Even when backed up by technology, they are circumvented!
“Meanwhile, there’s an entire online ecosystem of tutorials about how to evade Cloudflare’s bot blocking tools aimed at web scrapers.”
“Meanwhile, there’s an entire online ecosystem of tutorials about how to evade Cloudflare’s bot blocking tools aimed at web scrapers.”
July 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A grim reminder to all those who embrace “opt-outs” as a viable way of preventing unauthorized AI use. Even when backed up by technology, they are circumvented!
“Meanwhile, there’s an entire online ecosystem of tutorials about how to evade Cloudflare’s bot blocking tools aimed at web scrapers.”
“Meanwhile, there’s an entire online ecosystem of tutorials about how to evade Cloudflare’s bot blocking tools aimed at web scrapers.”
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“The writing that AI produces feels cheap because it is cheap. It feels simple because it is simple to produce. That is the whole point. AI is an enormously powerful tool, here to stay, with the capacity for real societal benefits—but the replacement of art and artists isn’t one of them.”
"In our writing, we drew on our lives: the losses of our parents, the births of our children, every love affair we’ve lived or imagined. Stories of human heroism and human depravity. These stories were stolen from us and used to train machines" #AIEthics #authors
lithub.com/against-ai-a...
lithub.com/against-ai-a...
Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Publishers
To Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America: We are standing on a precipice. At its simplest level, our job as …
lithub.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
“The writing that AI produces feels cheap because it is cheap. It feels simple because it is simple to produce. That is the whole point. AI is an enormously powerful tool, here to stay, with the capacity for real societal benefits—but the replacement of art and artists isn’t one of them.”
Am in NYC and reminded why it appears many in the US don’t care about what Russia is doing to Ukraine. No news station reported on last night’s bombings of Kyiv. It’s all about this manufactured “national crisis” in LA
June 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Am in NYC and reminded why it appears many in the US don’t care about what Russia is doing to Ukraine. No news station reported on last night’s bombings of Kyiv. It’s all about this manufactured “national crisis” in LA
As one MP said: “One of our greatest industrial sectors is on fire and ministers are having a picnic on the lawn with the arsonists.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We have a chance to prevent AI decimating Britain’s creative industries – but it’s slipping away | Beeban Kidron
The government has doubled down on a plans that would allow mass cultural theft, but we are fighting it at every stage, says crossbench peer Beeban Kidron
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
As one MP said: “One of our greatest industrial sectors is on fire and ministers are having a picnic on the lawn with the arsonists.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Morelle speculated that there was "surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk's efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models," in reference to the report released by the Copyright Office this week.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
Trump fires director of U.S. Copyright Office, sources say
Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter was appointed to the post by now former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, who herself was fired by President Trump earlier this week.
www.cbsnews.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Morelle speculated that there was "surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk's efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models," in reference to the report released by the Copyright Office this week.
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...
The most powerful man in the world’s response to the escalating tension between India and Pakistan: “Those two countries have been fighting for centuries.” Pakistan was founded in 1947. Pay attention in your history classes kids
May 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The most powerful man in the world’s response to the escalating tension between India and Pakistan: “Those two countries have been fighting for centuries.” Pakistan was founded in 1947. Pay attention in your history classes kids
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Sarah Glennane and James Morris from SCGI along with @helienne.bsky.social president of @ecsa.bsky.social met with Niamh Smyth TD, Minister of State in Department of Enterprise yesterday to discuss our deep concerns around music creators rights and generative AI platforms
May 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Sarah Glennane and James Morris from SCGI along with @helienne.bsky.social president of @ecsa.bsky.social met with Niamh Smyth TD, Minister of State in Department of Enterprise yesterday to discuss our deep concerns around music creators rights and generative AI platforms
Thanks for having me @screencomposersirl.bsky.social
Great turnout yesterday for the SCGI and @creativeeuireland.bsky.social networking lunch with keynote by @helienne.bsky.social president of @ecsa.bsky.social on AI and advocacy work of ECSA
May 3, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Thanks for having me @screencomposersirl.bsky.social
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In a court filing today, Google says "absent protection for intellectual property, there exists little reason to invest in developing software".
Yet they lobby governments to weaken IP law to allow unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work.
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Yet they lobby governments to weaken IP law to allow unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work.
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April 16, 2025 at 4:18 AM
In a court filing today, Google says "absent protection for intellectual property, there exists little reason to invest in developing software".
Yet they lobby governments to weaken IP law to allow unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work.
??
Yet they lobby governments to weaken IP law to allow unlicensed AI training on copyrighted work.
??
Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
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Organizations representing millions of creators & rights holders have said the EU’s Code of Practice on AI is “completely unacceptable.”
The Code of Practice outlines how the AI Act should be implemented. But creators reject it because:
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The Code of Practice outlines how the AI Act should be implemented. But creators reject it because:
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April 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Organizations representing millions of creators & rights holders have said the EU’s Code of Practice on AI is “completely unacceptable.”
The Code of Practice outlines how the AI Act should be implemented. But creators reject it because:
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The Code of Practice outlines how the AI Act should be implemented. But creators reject it because:
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… and instead require AI developers to license any copyrighted works before using them to train their AI models.”
Spot on.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
Spot on.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
committees.parliament.uk
April 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
… and instead require AI developers to license any copyrighted works before using them to train their AI models.”
Spot on.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
Spot on.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
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The UK Parliament’s Culture, Media & Sport Committee sent a strong message to the government on AI training today:
“The Government should abandon its preference for a data mining exception for AI training with rights reservation model…”
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“The Government should abandon its preference for a data mining exception for AI training with rights reservation model…”
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April 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The UK Parliament’s Culture, Media & Sport Committee sent a strong message to the government on AI training today:
“The Government should abandon its preference for a data mining exception for AI training with rights reservation model…”
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“The Government should abandon its preference for a data mining exception for AI training with rights reservation model…”
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Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit
April 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Tech execs declaring all-out war on creators who don’t want their life’s work pillaged for profit
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Jack’s justification for wanting to “delete all IP law”.
No mention of what these better models for compensating creators are, or that creators *overwhelmingly* support copyright law.
Also copyright is not rent-seeking, it is an incentive to create.
No mention of what these better models for compensating creators are, or that creators *overwhelmingly* support copyright law.
Also copyright is not rent-seeking, it is an incentive to create.
April 12, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Jack’s justification for wanting to “delete all IP law”.
No mention of what these better models for compensating creators are, or that creators *overwhelmingly* support copyright law.
Also copyright is not rent-seeking, it is an incentive to create.
No mention of what these better models for compensating creators are, or that creators *overwhelmingly* support copyright law.
Also copyright is not rent-seeking, it is an incentive to create.