Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, pursuant to the Answer of 26 January to Question 133539 on Copyright, whether her Department has concluded its stakeholder engagement on implementation options for copyright protection from text and data mining.

As announced at Spring Budget on 15 March 2023, the Government will work with creative industries and AI developers to develop a code of practice on text and data mining licensing by the Summer. This engagement is currently underway.