"Widespread concern about the use of creative works to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems has prompted the UK government to begin exploring how the country's copyright rules can be changed to satisfy the complex, often conflicting demands of both the creative and tech sectors. As it stands, the government is due to publish a report and impact assessment of each of the four options available on 18 March 2026, which were set out in a previous consultation that ran from December 2024 to February 2025."
"Questions around the use of creative works to train AI systems have become one of the most intense areas of debate since the advent of generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) with the release of OpenAI's ChatGPT in November 2022. In particular, the debate has focused on what it means for existing copyright protections and the livelihoods of creators, who have expressed concern over the unauthorised use of their works to train AI models."
The UK government is evaluating four options for AI-related copyright reform and will publish a report and impact assessment on 18 March 2026. Options include retaining current laws, strengthening copyright to require licences in all cases, implementing a broad data mining exemption for AI companies, or creating a limited data mining exemption that allows rights reservation alongside transparency measures. Existing copyright markets show structural imbalances that favour large corporations over individual creators. Creators express concerns about unauthorised scraping, lack of transparency about training data, insufficient enforceable protections, and adverse impacts on creative jobs and competition.
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