Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 54
54
Deferred
Opt-out data mining regime risks UK’s creative industries and copyright reputation
Conclusion
Getting the balance between AI development and copyright wrong will undermine the growth of our film and HETV sectors, and wider creative industries. Proceeding with an ‘opt-out’ regime stands to damage the UK’s reputation among inward investors for our previously gold-standard copyright and IP framework. (Conclusion, Paragraph 193)
Government Response Summary
The government is considering 11,500 consultation responses and will provide an economic impact assessment and a report on copyright and AI training within nine months of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 Royal Assent, establishing working groups and a Creative Content Exchange to inform its position.
Government Response
Deferred
HM Government
Deferred
The government is currently considering the 11,500 responses to its consultation and will provide its response in the coming months. The government recognises the need for this to be done properly and carefully in a considered, measured and reasoned way, and expects transparency measures to form an important part of any future legislative proposals. We are looking afresh at the whole range of options, keeping an open mind about what the answer might be. The government will, within nine months of Royal Assent of the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, set out a detailed economic impact assessment on all options under consideration and a report on the use of copyright material for AI training, transparency and technical standards. This analysis will inform the government’s position, alongside a series of expert working groups to bring together people from both the creative and AI sectors on the issues of transparency, licensing and other technical standards to chart a workable way forward, including enforceable legislation based on transparency and trust. The government will also work with people from the creative and tech sectors on innovative approaches to licensing. As part of the Sector Plan, the government will establish a Creative Content Exchange to be a trusted market place for selling, buying, licensing, and enabling permitted access to digitised cultural and creative assets. It will allow content owners to commercialise and financialise their assets while providing data users with ease of access – helping to fuel the next wave of creative innovation.