Artificial Intelligence

Over 70 leading UK creators and creative organisations, including Elton John, Sir Paul McCartney, and Getty Images, have signed an open letter urging the Government to defend copyright holders’ rights and stop Big Tech AI firms from exploiting their work. The signatories accuse ministers of ignoring international human rights obligations and prioritising US trade deals over the UK’s creative economy.

The IPTC has released a set of guidelines expressing best practices that publishers can follow to express the fact that they reserve data-mining rights on their copyrighted content. Read more...

France's Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, emphasises the need for fair remuneration for creators and rights holders in the context of the European AI regulation. The government is actively working with cultural and media sectors and AI developers to establish a fair remuneration model, ensuring the protection of copyright in the evolving AI landscape.

In July 2025, the European Commission released documents intended to ensure transparency for General-Purpose AI providers under the EU AI Act, CEPIC argues they fall short in protecting Europe’s creative and media sectors. The voluntary Code of Practice, insufficient Transparency Template, and overly lenient Guidelines for GPAI providers fail to provide meaningful protection for rights holders, prompting CEPIC to call for stronger, enforceable measures.

A broad coalition of rightsholders from the cultural and creative sectors in the EU has expressed dissatisfaction with the European Commission's implementation measures of the AI Act, particularly the GPAI Code of Practice and Guidelines. They argue that the measures fail to address key concerns about the protection of intellectual property rights and do not fulfil the promises of the AI Act, which was intended to safeguard European copyright holders in the age of generative AI.

Joe Naylor discusses two recent legal rulings that address AI's use of copyrighted works for training large language models (LLMs). While the decisions in Bartz v Anthropic and Kadrey v Meta favour AI companies in some respects, they also highlight potential future challenges for AI training on copyrighted content, with Judge Chhabria’s ruling offering a roadmap for future plaintiffs to pursue infringement claims.

Provenance for Trust," a new initiative from TrustMyContent, UncovAI, and the Journalism Trust Initiative, aims to restore trust in media by ensuring content authenticity and traceability. The program addresses key issues like AI transparency and copyright protection, providing solutions to combat misinformation.

Hundreds of US publishers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, have launched an ad campaign urging the government to ensure Big Tech compensates creators for content used in AI training. The "Support Responsible AI" campaign calls for fair compensation, mandatory attribution, and the protection of copyrighted content from unauthorised use by AI companies.