Member

Without slipping into issues that we will debate in a moment, it is important to record here that on page 19 of the AI consultation the Government have proposed including works created by children in the course of their education—for example, essays, art, science products and musical creations—as part of their proposal to make IP-protected works freely available to AI web scrapers and other AI interests under their data mining exception rules. My understanding of the proposal is that they mean freely available in both senses. Those who specialise in the area of education are very shocked by this suggestion. One wrote to me and said: