AI: The UK Abandons Its Preferred Option, but Keeps Things Vague

Posted by Isabelle Szczepanski le 19 mars 2026

The British government is cautiously backtracking on one of its most controversial proposals regarding AI and copyright.
In areport published on March 18 on AI and copyright, London indicates that it no longer considers the introduction of a text and data mining (TDM) exception with an opt-out mechanism—a model inspired by the European framework—to be the preferred option. However, this does not entirely rule out the possibility of adopting it. This shift in tone represents…

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