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Artificial Intelligence: Intellectual Property

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that visual artists with limited financial means and technical know-how can determine (a) whether and (b) how their works have been used by AI f

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Answering body: Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Tabled: 26 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 3 Mar 2025
Answer: 7 Mar 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

26 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, whether he plans to take steps to ensure that visual artists with limited financial means and technical know-how can determine (a) whether and (b) how their works have been used by AI f
3 Mar 2025
Target answer date
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7 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government’s consultation on Copyright and AI has just closed. This included a proposal to require AI model developers to be more transparent about how they obtain their training material, whether from web crawlers and other forms of training for AI m...

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