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Evening Standard
Politics
Abbie Llewelyn

Government defeat in Lords over protecting copyright from AI data scraping

Peers voted in favour of a package of amendments to the Government’s Data (Use and Access) Bill (Dominic Lipinski/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Government has been defeated in the Lords over measures to protect creatives from having their copyrighted work used to train AI models without permission or remuneration.

Peers voted 145 to 126, majority 19, in favour of a package of amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill aiming to tackle the unauthorised use of intellectual property by big tech companies scraping data for AI.

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