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Finally, I have been inundated by people who are materially affected by this issue, many of whom are watching our proceedings. I therefore just finish with some thanks: to the hundreds of creators who have emailed, written, spoken and campaigned in support of this amendment; to the UKAI trade group, which has shown that the grassroots UK tech industry and broader AI ecosystem, unlike the proxies of big tech, want to work with, not steal from, creators; to the UK businesses who put billions of pounds into building iconic brands and warn that this policy puts their investments at risk; to the security community, incredulous that opaque scraping may be carelessly legitimised in a period where cybersecurity is of paramount importance; to the financial sector, both here and in the US, which has made clear to me that diminishing copyright does not, as Ministers suggest, open the US market to the UK, but instead opens the UK market to anyone who wants to take our data offshore; to the news media that have put aside their differences in the interests of protecting the future of news with their Make It Fair campaign; to the Creative Rights in AI Coalition that has demonstrated the complete uniformity of sentiment across the sector, from the biggest record label to the freelance photographer just starting out; to those in both Houses, on all sides of the political spectrum, who have chosen to stand with the creative industries, sometimes against the wish of their Whip; and, finally, to the young people who have contacted me, furious that the Government Ministers who so recently were given the privilege of fulfilling their own ambitions are carelessly throwing away the possibility that the next generation of creators fulfil theirs.