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Artificial Intelligence: Copyright

Commons · Question 81394 · Tabled 13 Oct 2025 · Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · Official record

Answered 21 Oct 2025

Question

Asked by Matt Vickers

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, what steps she is taking to ensure that existing copyright law is (a) upheld and (b) enforced in relation to the scraping and use of creative content by generative artificial intelligen

Answer

Answered by Kanishka Narayan, 21 Oct 2025

Copying protected material in the UK infringes copyright unless it is licensed, or an exception to copyright applies.Rights holders are supported to enforce their rights by initiatives such as the streamlined procedures of the UK’s Intellectual Property E...