The UK government recently responded to the House of Lords Culture, Media and Sports Committee's report on artificial intelligence (AI) in the creative industries, confirming its position on balancing the encouragement of AI innovation, while protecting copyright works. The government's response highlighted that copyright works used as AI training data will infringe on copyrights unless it has been permitted under an exemption or under license.

This response has shown the government is committed to a code of practice when it comes to copyright and artificial intelligence. They stated that those involved in the development of the code are engaged in the process, giving a new date for the code publication in a few weeks.

The new code of practice will balance the rights of content creators while allowing AI developers to train their systems using high-quality data. The code is currently being developed by a group that was established by the UK's Intellectual Property Office. The code aims to make licenses for data mining more available, overcoming barriers that AI firms and users face while ensuring that they protect the copyright holders.

Sanjay Panesar, a Senior Partner at Rainer Hughes, leading copyright solicitors in the UK, said “The government's proposal to amend the legislation previously, enabled the use of copyright works to train artificial intelligence. This was met with backlash from the creators. Their latest response now shows that they are taking the rights of the content creators into consideration, making this a priority.”

The publication of the Code of Practice was due in 2023 and was then pushed back to later in the year. It has now been moved to early this year. This shows the difficulty the government is facing in achieving a consensus on how to use copyright works in AI training.

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