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The Earl of Effingham (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 2 March 2026

Debate

UK Streaming and Cinema Sector

Contribution

My Lords, the Government are considering a commercial research exception that would deny streamers the right to withhold consent for use of content when it is used in research and development, but all AI pretraining is technically R&D. Does the Minister accept that this would fatally undermine licensing markets, with payment only at a point of market entry after a leverage is lost? The best thing the Government could do is to rule out any such exception.

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