Question follow-through · 50211
Intellectual Property: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will require operators of generative AI models to seek approval from authors for using any published materials available online prior to using such materials for their own purposes.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 14 May 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will require operators of generative AI models to seek approval from authors for using any published materials available online prior to using such materials for their own purposes.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 May 2025
Answer published
The UK Copyright regime is clear about the rights holders’ intellectual property rights. Works can only be used where permission is granted or where there is an existing exception in copyright law. It is possible for rights holders to license the use of t...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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