The Government has suffered a heavy defeat over protections for the arts against artificial intelligence (AI), as a film director warned technology companies are plundering the UK’s cultural back catalogue to develop their products.
Baroness Beeban Kidron, who directed the second film in the Bridget Jones series, put forward an amendment that would ensure copyright holders would have to give permission over whether their work was used, and in turn, see what aspects had been taken, by who and when.
