Committee seeks views from tech industry representatives on AI development and copyright
The Communications and Digital Committee continues its inquiry on artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright, hearing perspectives from the tech industry.
Meeting details
At 2:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
AI and copyright
Deputy Executive Director at Startup Coalition
Senior Director at Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
Deputy Chief Executive Officer at techUK
At 3:30pm: Oral evidence
Inquiry
AI and copyright
Professor of Computer Vision and AI at University of Surrey
Vice President Engineering at Cloudflare
Senior Strategy Advisor and Co-founder at ProRata.ai
Background
This inquiry builds on the Committee’s previous work on AI and copyright as part of recent reports into UK scaleups, large language models and the creative industries.
The first session focuses on AI developer perspectives on the UK’s copyright framework, transparency and licensing.
In the second session the Committee puts questions to representatives of Cloudflare and ProRata.ai, and Professor Collomosse from the University of Surrey.
Possible areas for discussion
Possible areas for discussion with the first panel of witnesses include:
- The impacts of the current UK copyright framework, including in relation to the UK’s competitiveness in attracting AI development.
- Rights-reservation and transparency mechanisms, including what lessons the UK can learn from international models such as the EU AI Act’s transparency provisions.
- The possibilities presented by the emergence of new licensing models.
Possible areas for discussion with the second panel of witnesses include:
- Technical and practical challenges to enforcing copyright across the generative-AI lifecycle.
- Emerging solutions, including tools that would enable rights holders to control whether their content is accessed by AI systems.
- Licensing and remuneration models, and the role of government and regulators in helping to develop a sustainable licensing environment.