The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee will
tomorrow hold two evidence sessions on AI and copyright.
The first session will be with representatives of the
tech sector with witnesses from techUK, the Computer and
Communications Industry Association and the Startup Coalition.
The session will focus on the current UK copyright framework from
the perspective of AI developers. This will include questions on
the impact of the framework on AI developers' decisions on where
to base their operations, and how significant a factor it is
compared to access to compute, energy prices, capital and skills.
The session will also explore transparency, including what
lessons the UK can learn from international models such as the EU
AI Act, and the possibilities presented by the emergence of new
licensing models.
The second session will see the Committee put questions
to representatives of Cloudflare and ProRata.ai, and Professor
Collomosse from the University of Surrey. The session
will explore technical and practical challenges to enforcing
copyright across the generative-AI lifecycle, and emerging
solutions. Questions will explore tools to enable rights holders
to control whether their content is accessed by AI systems,
provenance and attribution technologies, and the role of
government and regulators in helping develop a sustainable
licensing environment.
The evidence sessions will start at 2:30pm on Tuesday 9
December in Committee Room 3 of the House of Lords. The full
witness details are:
2:30pm
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Vinous Ali, Deputy Executive Director, Startup
Coalition
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, Senior
Director, Computer and Communications Industry
Association (CCIA)
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Antony Walker, Deputy Chief Executive Officer,
techUK
3:30pm
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Professor John Collomosse, Professor of
Computer Vision and AI, University of Surrey
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Ed Conolly, Vice President Engineering,
Cloudflare
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Eugene Huang, Senior Strategy Advisor and
Co-founder, ProRata.ai
