AI, Copyright and the Creative Industries: Navigating the Path Forward 

As AI tools become increasingly embedded in everyday tasks, the implications for copyright and the creative industries remain underexamined. While initiatives such as Stanford University’s Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2025 have offered pioneering cross-sector analysis, emerging trends around copyright still warrant closer attention. 

In the UK, the House of Lords March Inquiry Report called for stronger protections for the creative industries without compromising homegrown AI innovation. The subsequent Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence confirmed the government’s intention to approach these overlapping fields incrementally, in step with international developments. 

At the heart of the debate lies text and data mining for AI training. Data mining is essential for sharpening AI models and maintaining global competitiveness, yet it also grants developers unrestricted, unmonitored access to creators’ work with little transparency. Current proposals centre on exceptions with opt-in or opt-out options for creators, but with the framework in limbo and the Artificial Intelligence Bill already delayed, legislation risks being outpaced by both technology and international pressure. 

This roundtable, hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Data and Emerging Technologies (APGDET), will bring together parliamentarians, civil society and the creative industries to move beyond the current deadlock and identify strategies for regulation that protects creators’ rights while supporting AI innovation. 

Location: Houses of Parliament, Westminster 

Chair: Daniel Zeichner MP

For further information, please write to Lavanya Rangarajan