Spinning Disruption: A History of Creative Industry Alarm Bells

The UK's creative industries (and their counterparts across the globe) are, yet again, sounding the alarm. The new "threat"? Generative Artificial Intelligence. The campaign? "Make it Fair." Launched in early 2025, it decries AI models "scraping" creative content without permission or payment, posing a "huge threat" to an industry allegedly worth billions to the UK economy. Government proposals for a copyright exception for text and data mining (TDM) are labeled "content theft" with potentially...