Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works in protecting artists against breaches of artistic copyright by AI models.

The Department has not made its own assessment of the effectiveness of the Berne Convention in relation to AI models.

However, a recent meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which is responsible for the Berne Convention, included a session on the use of artistic and other copyright works by AI models.

The UK participated in this session and will continue to engage with WIPO and with other international partners as we consider the way forward on this important topic.