"My Lords, we will now move to the lunch-break business. We will therefore not return to the Bill before one hour and 15 minutes from now. However, to clarify, we will not cut short the 90-minute debate for the SI; this is just in case it finishes earlier, and we …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech
"My Lords, there has been a slight change of timing for the next debate. A mistake was made on the Order Paper. The noble Lord, Lord Palmer of Childs Hill, and the noble Baroness, Lady Spielman, each have 12 minutes. That means there are no minutes in the gap. I …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech
"The Government recognise the concerns raised by businesses and rights holders about Meta’s updated commercial terms. Meta has delayed their introduction until 20 November, and the Competition and Markets Authority is engaging directly with Meta. We are committed to ensuring that creators can control the use of their work. In …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech
"The CMA recognises the urgency of this matter, particularly for businesses that rely on Meta services to reach their customers. A delay does not resolve the questions raised by the effect of the new terms. We understand that the CMA is engaging directly with Meta to establish the facts. Following …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech
"I assure my noble friend that the Government recognise the concerns raised about Meta’s updated commercial terms and are committed to ensuring that creators can control the use of their work. UK copyright continues to apply to the use of protected works in AI development and training. Where an activity …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech
"As far as the EU is concerned, noble Lords may wish to know that on 22 October the European Commission received a formal competition complaint about Meta’s revised commercial terms. It confirmed that it would assess the complaint under its established procedures, and welcomed Meta’s subsequent decision to delay implementation …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech
"The noble Viscount will not be surprised to hear that I disagree with his description of the Government’s strategy, work and progress on this issue. It is very clear that DCMS is in charge of AI and copyright and works across government, including with BIST on growth and the economy, …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech
"Meta has publicly stated that website owners can use robots.txt to indicate their preferences about its crawlers, and has reiterated this in our engagement on creator control and transparency. However, we recognise the concerns raised by publishers about whether these assurances provide meaningful and enforceable control over their content. On …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech
"We recognise the importance of ensuring that publishers and smaller creators can control and benefit from the use of their content, and we further understand that news publishers rely on traffic, advertising and subscription to support their work. Concerns of the sort that the noble Baroness mentions have been raised …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech
"The Government want rights holders to have the information and means to control how their work is used, to secure licences and to enforce their rights. Knowing who accesses content and who may help rights holders to exercise these rights is very important. Our work is to examine what information …..." Baroness Ramsey of Wall Heath - View Speech