Mandy Hill, managing director at Cambridge University Press and the president of the Publishers Association, said the backtrack was a victory “over the self-interest of a handful of large corporations”.<\/p>\n
However, Hill said the government has not entirely ruled out allowing tech companies to use copyrighted content to train AI models without a license.<\/p>\n
“The existing law is clear,” she added. “Copyright material cannot be used for AI development and training without permission.”<\/p>\n
Anthony Walker, deputy chief executive of Tech UK, said getting the balance right is critical.<\/p>\n
“The UK has set its sights on leading the G7 in AI adoption, but that requires a clear and enabling framework for AI innovation,” he said.<\/p>\n
“With international competitors moving ahead, the UK cannot afford for this to remain unresolved.”<\/p>\n
The issue of AI and copyright continues to be controversial.<\/p>\n
Last year, some of the highest profile British artists – along with peers in the House of Lords – wanted an amendment to the government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill.<\/p>\n
It would have forced tech companies to declare their use of copyright material when training AI tools.<\/p>\n
Without it, it was argued, tech firms would be given free rein to help themselves to UK content and train their AI products to mimic it – putting human artists out of work.<\/p>\n
Sir Elton, in an interview with the BBC, compared it to “committing theft, thievery on a high scale”.<\/p>\n
However, in June last year, the government refused the amendment and the wide-ranging bill was passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mandy Hill, managing director at Cambridge University Press and the president of the Publishers Association, said the backtrack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-482508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}