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UK arts and media reject plan to let AI firms use copyrighted material | Coalition of musicians, photographers and newspapers insist existing copyright laws must be respected
Exclusive: Coalition of musicians, photographers and newspapers insist existing copyright laws must be respected
Writers, publishers, musicians, photographers, movie producers and newspapers have rejected the Labour government’s plan to create a copyright exemption to help artificial intelligence companies train their algorithms. The Conservative chair of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, Caroline Dinenage, alleged the government had “fully drunk the Kool-Aid on AI”. In a House of Lords debate on those amendments this week, their proposer, Beeban Kidron, compared the government’s suggested system to asking shopkeepers to “opt out of shoplifters” and said: “I struggle to think of another situation where someone protected by law must proactively wrap it around themselves on an individual basis.”
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