Question follow-through · 16804
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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- Answering body
- 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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Recorded timeline
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 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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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 ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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