Creative Rights In AI Coalition warns against mirroring EU approach

The Creative Rights in AI Coalition has said:

“Following the Prime Minister’s broad commitment to take forward the Plan’s recommendations, we call on the government to provide assurances that all options in the Copyright and AI Consultation – including enforcing the existing copyright regime with transparency provisions –remain on the table.

“It is deeply concerning to see the EU approach looked to as a regime that the UK should mirror. The EU is still working out how to implement its EU AI Act and there are persistent questions over the workability of their opt-out regime. This serves as a real-time warning for the government about imitating regimes that have shown no signs of being effective. The UK should learn from the EU regime’s shortcomings, not blindly imitate it.

“Furthermore, there is no ‘uncertainty’ in the UK text and data mining regime: it is clear that UK copyright law does not allow text and data mining for commercial purposes without a licence. The only uncertainty is around who has been using the UK’s creative crown jewels as training material without permission and how they got hold of it, making transparency provisions vital.”  

You can learn more about the coalition here.

The organisations that make up the coalition are:

• Artists’ Collecting Society
• Association of Illustrators
• Association of Authors’ Agents
• Association of Independent Music
• Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
• Association of Online Publishers
• Association of Photographers
• Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society
• British Copyright Council
• British Phonographic Industry
• CILIP – the library and information association
• Copyright Licensing Agency
• Creators’ Rights Alliance
• Design and Artists Copyright Society
• DMG Media
• European Publishers Council
• Financial Times
• Getty Images
• Guardian News & Media
• Independent Publishers Alliance
• Independent Publishers Guild
• Independent Society of Musicians
• International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers
• Motion Picture Association
• Mumsnet
• Music Publishers Association
• News Media Association
• News Media Europe
• Newsquest Media Group
• NLA Media Access Limited
• Pact (Producers Alliance for Television and Cinema)
• Pan Macmillan
• PICSEL (Picture Industry Collecting Society for Effective Licensing)
• PPL (Phonographic Performance Ltd)
• PPA (Professional Publishers Association)
• PRS for Music
• Publishers Association
• Publishers’ Licensing Services
• Society of Authors
• Society of Editors
• Telegraph Media Group
• The Associated Press
• The Society of Artists Agents
• UK Music
• Writers’ Guild of Great Britain