Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 81394

Artificial Intelligence: Copyright

Tabled: 13 October 2025
Answered: 21 October 2025

Question

Matt Vickers

ConservativeStockton West

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

Kanishka Narayan
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...

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