Question to the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to protect intellectual property from being used in the training of artificial intelligence technology.

Copying protected material continues to infringe copyright unless it is licensed, or an exception applies.

The Government recently consulted on several topics relating to the interaction between copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). Its priority now is to complete the analysis of the consultation responses which will help inform next steps in this area.

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