The Government has today published a consultation on the UK legal
framework for AI and
Copyright.
Commenting in the consultation Baroness Stowell Chair of the
House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee, which has
undertaken significant work on the impact of AI on news
providers, other publishers and content
creators said:
“The Lords Communications Committee's recent reports on
Large Language Models and
the Future of News identified a
real issue with tech companies using copyrighted material to
train their models without any credit or revenue finding its way
back to content creators. The Government is right to try and
make progress on this issue and must do so in a way that
aligns incentives, and empowers content creators and
tech firms to strike mutually beneficial deals.
“The EU's model is the wrong approach. If this consultation
leads to an ‘opt-out' model, it is vital publishers and other
copyright holders have the necessary information to understand
how and where their data is being used and are supported by
enhanced enforcement mechanisms so they can enforce their
copyright and block AI web crawlers should they choose to do so.
It is not fair to expect rights holders alone to enforce their
copyright in an often-mismatched legal battle against the
bottomless pockets of the tech giants.”
