- Committee will also take evidence from Google and
Charismatic.ai
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee will next
week finish the public evidence sessions for its AI and copyright
inquiry by hearing from , Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and
Technology, and , Secretary of State for Culture,
Media and Sport.
The Committee will also hear from witnesses from Google and
Charismatic.ai.
Building on its previous work on this topic, the Committee has
been investigating AI and copyright since November 2025. The
inquiry is considering whether current UK copyright law gets the
balance right between protecting content creators and rights
holders when copyrighted material is used to train AI and
ensuring AI companies are not discouraged from basing themselves
in the UK.
On Tuesday 13 January the Committee will take evidence
from 2pm in Committee Room 1 of the House of Lords from:
2:00pm
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Roxanne Carter, Global IP Lead, Government
Affairs and Public Policy, Google
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Guy Gadney, Chief Executive Officer,
Charismatic.ai
3:00pm
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Rt Hon MP, Secretary of
State for Science, Innovation and Technology
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Rt Hon MP, Secretary of
State for Culture, Media and Sport
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Ruth Hannant, Director General for Society,
Media and Culture, Department for Culture, Media and Sport
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Ollie Illott, Interim Director General for
Artificial Intelligence, Department for Science, Innovation and
Technology
In the first session with Google and Charismatic.ai, questions
will focus on tools that would enable rights holders to control
whether their work is used to train AI systems and what more AI
companies should do to enable these to work effectively, why AI
developers are resistant to greater transparency requirements on
training material they use, and the reported lack of willingness
of AI companies to engage in licensing deals for AI use of
creative works.
In the second session, the Committee will ask the Ministers when
the Government expects to reach a definitive position on AI,
copyright and a possible text and data mining exception following
the conclusion of its consultation last year, what progress they
have made in relation to potential transparency requirements on
AI companies regarding their training material, and how they will
respond to concerns about existing ‘opt-out' mechanisms not being
sufficient to protect rights holders.
