Question follow-through · 42775

Arts: Artificial Intelligence

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what advice her Department provides to creative industries considering the use of legal recourse when artificial intelligence has been used in breach of copyright.

answeredDepartment for Culture, Media and Sport

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Answering body: Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled: 31 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 2 Apr 2025
Answer: 8 Apr 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

31 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what advice her Department provides to creative industries considering the use of legal recourse when artificial intelligence has been used in breach of copyright.
2 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Apr 2025
Answer published
It would be inappropriate for the Government to provide direct legal advice to individual creators or organisations, but we fully recognise the serious and evolving challenges posed by the use of copyrighted material in AI development. The current UK Copy...

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