Question follow-through · 27358

Artificial Intelligence: Copyright

To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure rights holders are remunerated when their copyright works are used to train artificial intelligence models.

answeredDepartment for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport

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Answering body
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Tabled
4 Sept 2026
Target answer date
8 Sept 2026
Answer
15 Sept 2026 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Sept 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to ensure rights holders are remunerated when their copyright works are used to train artificial intelligence models.

  2. 8 Sept 2026

    Target answer date

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  3. 15 Sept 2026

    Answer published

    This government believes creatives should be able to know and control how their content is used by AI firms and be able to seek fair payment. Working alongside DBIST, we will take steps to drive best practice on transparency, and on the use of the mechani...

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