Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what recent assessment she has made of the potential impact of the level of copyright protections in relation to the use of creative works for training generative artificial intelligence systems on the UK’s creative industries.

Copying protected material in the UK will infringe copyright unless it is licensed, or an exception to copyright applies.

The Government recently consulted on several topics relating to the interaction between copyright and artificial intelligence (AI), including seeking views on the use of copyright material in AI model development.

The Government’s priority now is to consider all responses to the consultation, to help inform its next steps. Alongside this we launched expert working groups in July, bringing together representatives of the creative, media and AI sectors, and have committed to convene a parliamentary working group on the issue.

The Government will continue to engage extensively on this issue and its proposals will be set out in due course.