The UK’s creative industries mustn’t be sacrificed at the altar of AI technology, the Lords Communications and Digital Committee has warned. The full report published last week can be found HEREIn their report on AI, copyright, and the creative industries, peers urged the Government:
- to develop a licensing regime
- and abandon proposals to let tech firms use novelists’, artists’, writers’, and journalists’ work without permission.
Labour Committee Chair Baroness Keeley stressed that “AI may contribute to our future economic growth, but the UK creative industries create jobs and economic value now”.Stephanie Reeves, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the British Copyright Council agreed with the Committee that the Government “must decisively rule out any copyright exception, including for so called ‘commercial research’.”
The British Copyright Council continues to urge ministers to publicly rule out changes to the copyright framework.
