Consultation on government proposals which would allow tech firms to use copyrighted material from creatives and publishers without having to pay, gain a licence or reimburse creatives for using their work ended on Tuesday.
“The UK government could lead the way by regulating and actually helping the creative industries, which means so much to Britain, so much more than any other country in the world I think if you take into account movies, acting, the music industry and everything else.”.
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has accused the Government of getting “bogged down” in defending artificial intelligence (AI) at the expense of safeguarding the UK’s creative industries.
“The music community has always been quick to adopt new technologies… but adoption of this copyright exception would destroy the UK’s leadership that has been hard won, and what’s worse, it would give it all away.
He said tech companies should need to ask permission to use work and share income with creative industries.
