Question follow-through · 24324
Artificial Intelligence: Copyright
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the use of artificial intelligence complies with existing copyright law.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Tabled
- 15 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 17 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 23 Jan 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
15 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the use of artificial intelligence complies with existing copyright law.
17 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Government is clear that making copies of protected material will infringe copyright unless it is licensed, or an exception to copyright applies. However, the application of existing copyright law to generative AI models is untested in the courts, and...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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