08/05/2026
Just over one week until: Proof of Human - AI, Copyright, and the Fight for Creative Authorship
📅 18 May, 6.00pm - 7.45pm
📍 Auditorium, Sister Manchester
🎟️ https://ow.ly/kHiV50YEPvj
Join Creative Manchester for a special public engagement lecture with Andrew Melchior, creative technologist, CTO of Massive Attack and founder of Genotone Ltd.
After his lecture, Andrew will be joined in conversation by John McGrath, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Factory International.
In this talk, Andrew Melchior draws on his experience advising UK government technical working groups on AI and copyright, and his work building Genotone, an open provenance protocol designed to establish verifiable authorship at the point of creation. He argues that the challenge is not simply legal but infrastructural: without a reliable way to distinguish human-made work from AI-generated content, and to trace the lineage of creative material through complex supply chains, no rights regime can be effectively enforced.
Weaving together perspectives from music, policy, and technology, the talk will sit at the intersection of AI, copyright, and artist provenance infrastructure and examine what meaningful protection for artists might look like in practice.
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