AI Companies Scrape Irish Musicians' Songs, Prompting Copyright Motion
2026-07-13 | IRL | incident | economic
Our take
125 songs by The Script, scraped without asking. Parliament now debates a motion while the models keep whatever they already learned.
The facts
Major AI companies have scraped and used 125 songs by The Script and other Irish artists without permission for AI training, leading to intellectual property theft and market dilution. This incident has prompted Sinn Féin to propose a parliamentary motion to protect artists' copyright in Ireland.