AI: Intellectual Property Rights

Lord Cromwell Excerpts
Thursday 9th May 2024

(2 weeks ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Cromwell Portrait Lord Cromwell (CB)
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I am most grateful. AI is already creating IP of its own, but it is unable to register it because, by law, a human being needs to register IP. In trying to create a legislative bottle into which this genie could be reinserted, have the Government taken that into account?

Viscount Camrose Portrait Viscount Camrose (Con)
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The noble Lord raises a very interesting question. The laws surrounding the copyrighting of machine-generated content are getting fairly elderly now and certainly need to be looked at as part of the overall position going forward.