The article discusses the UK government's precarious balance between economic growth and protecting copyright as technology companies push for relaxed laws enabling AI to access content freely. With the US and China leading in AI development, the UK is under pressure to create a favorable environment for tech investment. Despite the acknowledgment of creative rights, the consultation on AI and copyright increasingly benefits big tech, raising concerns about the erosion of protections for original creative works and the implications of AI's unregulated content use.
For a UK government desperate for economic growth, the demands of tech companies for copyright laws to be relaxed have been hard to resist.
The makers of works of art, and other products of human creativity, have for centuries been entitled to protection from copyists.
Currently, the law is very clear... the principle that original material cannot be ripped off and that creative people have rights over their work is widely understood and accepted.
Breaking things is, famously, part of the Silicon Valley ethos. Already, AI firms have absorbed a vast amount of material that they ought to have been obliged to pay for.
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