The AI Adoption Plan for the Creative Industries – update
The AI Adoption Plan for the Creative Industries sets out a practical, trusted and augmentation‑first programme for the sector to achieve its objective. The plan reports current use of AI (with case studies) and lists eight recommendations, concluding that it will...
New Zealand – Copyright Update
Implementing its free trade agreements with the UK and the EU respectively, the New Zealand Government has released a copyright package to meet the required obligations. The core items are unsurprising: extending the term of protection from 50 to 70 years (with the...
Thanks to Andrew Yeates
The British Copyright Council without Andrew is hard to picture, and luckily we don’t have to. His experience and commitment to the UK’s creators and rights holders will continue to shape the organisation well beyond his formal transition to resident wise oracle. Not...
Tribute to BCC President, Maureen Duffy
The British Copyright Council is deeply saddened by the death of Maureen Duffy FRSL, our President, an extraordinary writer, campaigner and champion of creators’ rights. For more than six decades, Maureen stood at the forefront of British cultural life. As a...
Pastiche – “The scope of the existing exceptions is being tested”
The scope of the existing exceptions is being tested — most recently the one for pastiche. Hardly anyone has heard the word before, yet it could have become a catch‑all exception not unlike fair use in the US. The good news: nobody actually wants that. Well, not the...
“Rightsholders gain a significantly stronger litigation position” as France’s Senate unanimously adopts the bill introducing a presumption of use of cultural content by AI providers
Everyone is celebrating the French for defending their magnificent culture through a law that would force AI services to face the music. The bill, which complements the implementation of the EU AI Act, creates a reversed burden of proof in copyright disputes, meaning...
