27 January 2025

Ahead of a crucial vote on Baroness Kidron’s amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, the Creative Rights in AI Coalition said: "We welcome Baroness Kidron's identification of transparency - coupled with a strong copyright protection framework - as key issues in helping protect the UK's creative economy. These should be the government's priorities moving forward, as should encouraging generative AI developers to enter into voluntary agreements and obtain authorisation from rights holders for use of their works, which will spur UK-led innovation. High quality data is crucial to generative AI innovation, and a failure to invest in it will inevitably inhibit growth in both the creative and tech sectors.”
Notes
- Amendments 44A, 61, 62, 63, 64, and 65 tabled by Baroness Kidron to the Data (Use and Access) Bill will be voted on in the Lords on Tuesday 28th January. The amendments’explanatory statements set out that the provisions would ensure AI firms ‘observe UK copyright law’ to ‘counter the wide spread theft of IP by AI companies’. Key amongst the provisions are ‘transparency requirements that would allow copyright holders to identify when and from where their work has been taken’.
- www.creativerightsinai.co.uk #CreativeRightsInA
- Organisations in membership of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition are:
- Artists’ Collecting Society
- Association of Illustrators
- Association of Authors' Agents
- Association of Independent Music
- Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
- Association of Online Publishers
- Association of Photographers
- Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
- Bridgeman Images
- British Copyright Council
- British Phonographic Industry
- Center for Journalism & Liberty
- CILIP - the library and information association
- Copyright Clearance Center
- Copyright Licensing Agency
- Creators’ Rights Alliance
- Design and Artists Copyright Society
- DMG Media
- European Publishers Council
- Equity
- Featured Artists Coalition
- Financial Times
- FIPP (International Federation of Periodical Publishers)
- Getty Images
- Guardian News & Media
- Independent Publishers Alliance
- Independent Publishers Guild
- Independent Society of Musicians
- International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
- LifeScore
- Motion Picture Association
- Mumsnet
- Music Publishers Association
- News Media Association
- News Media Europe
- Newsquest Media Group
- NLA Media Access Limited
- Pact (Producers Alliance for Television and Cinema)
- Pan Macmillan
- PICSEL (Picture Industry Collecting Society for Effective Licensing)
- PPL (Phonographic Performance Ltd)
- PPA (Professional Publishers Association)
- PRS for Music
- Publishers Association
- Publishers' Licensing Services
- Science Photo Library
- Society of Authors
- Society of Editors
- Telegraph Media Group
- The Associated Press
- The British Press Photographers' Association
- The Ivors Academy
- The Society of Artists Agents
- UK Music
- Voice-Swap
- Writers’ Guild of Great Britain
- 560 Media Right
Categories: AI/Artificial Intelligence, Copyright/IP