Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what recent progress she has made on establishing a working group on independent and smaller creative organisations on the impact of AI on creators, and when she expects the working group to hold its first meeting.

We are in the process of establishing the working group, and have reached out to prospective members including independent creatives, creative industries trade and member organisations, and individuals with expertise in law and licensing.

We are now confirming membership and aim to hold the first meeting this month, subject to participants’ availability.

The group will help us understand how creatives are experiencing the evolving AI licensing market, and whether there are appropriate mechanisms in place to ensure individual creators and right holders are appropriately represented in it.

This will sit alongside other workstreams we are progressing on AI and copyright including a consultation on digital replicas, a new taskforce to put forward proposals for government on best practice for labelling AI-generated content, and a review of the mechanisms available for creators to control their works online.