Written Question·Department for Science, Innovation and Technology·UIN 65932

Intellectual Property: Arts

Tabled: 8 July 2025
Answered: 16 July 2025

Question

Max Wilkinson

Liberal DemocratCheltenham

To ask the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, which organisations have been invited to meet his Department in plenary sessions to discuss the intellectual property rights of creative industries.

Answer

Feryal Clark

The Government has committed to establishing stakeholder working groups to inform the development of policy on copyright and AI.

In line with debates in Parliament on the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, the Secretaries of State for the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport are convening the first meeting of these stakeholder working groups on 16th July. The Government will publish details and a list of working group members in due course.