Peers join UK creator groups' call for ministers to rule out copyright exception for AI firms
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🏛️ AI POLICY & REGULATION
THE UK’S UPPER HOUSE has called on the Keir Starmer administration to follow Australia’s lead in ruling out a new copyright exception that would allow hi-techs to train their AI models on rightsholders’ works without consent or compensation. The House of Lords report further recommends forcing AI developers to reveal which works have been used for model training — the issue that prompted last year’s repeated clashes between peers and ministers, and prolonged parliamentary deadlock.
More in a moment on the Lords’ sympathetic report, plus we hear from creator groups who are deeply concerned that the UK government is considering a new concession for AI companies that would allow them to claim AI model training was performed under the guise of research. Plus, the Financial Times is today reporting that the government has chosen to delay making any decisions on AI and copyright, and that its long-awaited response to last year’s consultation — due on or before March 18 — will merely state it needs to gather more evidence.
