Source · Select Committees · Culture, Media and Sport Committee
Recommendation 55
55
Deferred
Require AI developers to license copyrighted works before training AI models
Recommendation
The Government should abandon its preference for a data mining exception for AI training with rights reservation model, and instead require AI developers to license any copyrighted works before using them to train their AI models. (Recommendation, Paragraph 194)
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, keeping an open mind on all options rather than committing to licensing now.
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.