On 19th June, the Data (Use and Access) Bill received Royal Assent. It was the ignominious end to a saga that began on 17th December, when the government launched a consultation into the illegal scraping of authors' works. The idea was to come up with proposals for how to regulate AI and protect UK copyright law, the oldest in the world. The Statute of Anne was passed in 1710 and enshrined the principle that the creator of an original work of imagination owns it. Simple, you’d think. Except the essence of the government's proposals was to put the onus on writers, composers, illustrators, playwrights and academics to stop AI from stealing their work. The government listened, star-struck, when tech companies claimed it was impossible to find a way of paying for other people's work.
Kate Mosse's diary: the great AI copyright swindle www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno... via @prospectmagazine.co.uk
Misleading nonsense. The DUA Act made no changes to law on AI or copyright. Government is still considering responses to the consultation.
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