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UK copyright law consultation ‘fixed’ in favour of AI firms, peer says
- A consultation on changes to UK copyright law is “fixed” in favour of artificial intelligence companies and will lead to a “wholesale” transfer of wealth from the creative industries to the tech sector, according to a crossbench peer campaigning against the mooted overhauls.
- The government consultation on amending copyright law appeared to be a foregone conclusion and was undermining its own growth agenda with proposals to let AI companies train their algorithms on creative works under a new copyright exemption.
- The government has proposed four options in its consultation, it has indicated a preferred scenario where copyright restrictions are relaxed for AI developers, provided they flag what works they use and if the creative industries have the opportunity to “opt out” of the process. It describes such an outcome as “the primary object of this consultation”.
- Beeban Kidron, said the government was undermining its own growth agenda with proposals to let AI companies train their algorithms on creative works under a new copyright exemption.
- Lady Kidron’s amendments subject AI companies to UK copyright law wherever they are based and allow copyright owners to know when, where and how their work is used in AI systems.
- Pushing ahead with the changes would benefit the tech sector at the expense of its creative counterpart, according to Lady Kidron.
- Kidron aims to tackle the unauthorised use of copyrighted material to train the AI models that underpin products such as chatbots and image generators.
- The consultation also proposes measures that require transparency from AI developers on what content they have used to train their models.
- Campaigners for the protection of the rights of creative professionals have come out against the government proposal to allow AI firms to train the models on copyrighted work.
- The government spokesperson said that it was “important that everyone remains open-minded about this consultation and what it could deliver for all parties”.
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