Question follow-through · 50197
Arts: Artificial Intelligence
To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of Meta's use of the LibGen database to train artificial intelligence models on UK creative workers.
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- Answering body
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 6 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 make an assessment of the potential impact of Meta's use of the LibGen database to train artificial intelligence models on UK creative workers.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
The Government has no plans to make a formal assessment. However, while the case highlighted relates to legal proceedings in the United States, we take seriously the implications for UK rights holders. The unauthorised use of copyright works, particularly...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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