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Artificial Intelligence: Copyright

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an estimate of the potential value to the economy of licensing agreements between AI developers and the UK's creative industries for copyright protected

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Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
2 Dec 2024
Answer
6 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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  1. 28 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether his Department has made an estimate of the potential value to the economy of licensing agreements between AI developers and the UK's creative industries for copyright protected

  2. 2 Dec 2024

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  3. 6 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    The Government recognises that licensing is an important tool to ensure rights holders are remunerated appropriately. We have made no specific estimate at this stage of the potential economic value of licensing agreements between AI developers and rights ...

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