We are currently collating responses from ALT Members in answer to the Government consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence. The consultation is open until Tuesday 25 February 2025 and we encourage our Members and Member Institutions from all sectors to respond. Collectively, our voices are stronger, and we are seeking to include references to your responses in ALT's submission to show just how important an area for policy, research and practice this is.
How to contribute
To include your views in ALT’s response, please send your contributions via email to consultation@alt.ac.uk by Tuesday 18 February 2025.
There are 44 questions in the consultation and you do not need to respond to them all. Please focus your response on those most important and relevant to you.
About the consultation
Launched in December 2024 by the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, the consultation sets out the Government plan to deliver a copyright and AI framework. The application of copyright law to the training of AI models is a topic for debate. Rights holders are finding it difficult to exercise their rights and AI developers are finding it difficult to navigate copyright law. The consultation seeks views on how the Government can deliver a solution that achieves their key objectives for the AI sector and creative industries. Including:
- Supporting rights holders’ control of their content and ability to be remunerated for its use.
- Supporting the development of world-leading AI models in the UK by ensuring wide and lawful access to high-quality data.
- Promoting greater trust and transparency between the sectors.
Why your views matter
As an organisation, we are keen to enable our members to explore the opportunities Artificial Intelligence creates for education, as well as the concerns and challenges it presents. We want to understand and reflect the concerns felt by researchers, educators, students and staff over the unauthorised use of their works to train AI models in our response.