He said: “The Government’s commitment to an industrial strategy includes our brilliant creative industries, but discussions with this industry should focus on how we advance and enhance it; we risk, otherwise, making it about how we protect its very existence if we do not take seriously the deep alarm voiced by creators over the threat posed by AI.”.
The measures would explicitly subject AI companies to UK copyright law, regardless of where they are based, reveal the names and owners of web crawlers that currently operate anonymously and allow copyright owners to know when, where and how their work is used.
“We can enable a world where much of this value is transferred to a handful of big tech firms or we can enable a win-win situation for the creative industries and AI developers, one where they work together based on licensed relationships with remuneration and transparency at its heart.
Labour MP Chris Kane (Stirling and Strathallan) said the amendments supported by the Lords on copyright and transparency “resonate greatly with me and much of the creative community” as he urged colleagues to “give them due consideration” at committee stage in the Commons.
SNP MP and musician Pete Wishart (Perth and Kinross-shire) said the creative industries are key to the UK Government’s growth agenda, saying: “What was it – £125 billion to the economy in 2022, providing 2.4 million jobs?
