AI: The UK Abandons Its Preferred Option, but Keeps Things Vague
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… a partial victory for the creative industries, which have been campaigning for over a year against a provision that would have allowed AI companies to train their models on protected works without prior authorization, unless rights holders explicitly objected. This approach has been strongly criticized for reversing the logic of copyright. Other exceptions Nevertheless, the…