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Nearly 40 British creative groups, including publishers, authors and photographers, have called on the federal government to guard the copyright rules of the industry with an annual turnover of greater than £100 billion, ahead of a controversial consultation.
The Creative Rights in AI Coalition said a licensing marketplace for using creative content in constructing generative AI will not be only essential for fairness, but can also be “the one way for each sectors to thrive and grow.”
The newly formed group wants the federal government to adopt core principles as a framework for developing AI policy, including a licensing market with copyright protection and ensuring content creators have control over their work and may monitor its use.
The government is predicted to launch a consultation on AI and the creative industries on Tuesday. The issue has develop into controversial due to concerns that AI corporations are already reproducing much of the UK's creative output without payment or attribution.
In an announcement to the Financial Times, the coalition said: “The UK's creative industries generate well over £100 billion a 12 months. “We have, in every sense of the word, earned the proper to have our voice heard. The key to this success and future growth is copyright.”
The formation of the coalition reflects concerns that the industry's approach is out of sync with the federal government on rules that may have a huge effect on the work of British authors, musicians, journalists and filmmakers.
Organizations which have joined the coalition include Daily Mail owner DMG, PRS for Music, the News Media Association, the Publishers Association, Associated Press, the Society of Editors, Pan Macmillan and the British Phonographic Industry. The Financial Times can also be a member.
Text and data mining by generative AI systems involves the automated crawling and evaluation of enormous portions of the Internet and is critical to AI development.
But executives fear the federal government will deliberate on rules that can make it harder for copyright holders to strike deals about their work with AI corporations. Many within the industry accuse AI corporations of already scraping their content and using it for training purposes.
An try to create a voluntary code of conduct failed this 12 months because each side couldn’t agree on a position.
Culture Minister Lisa Nandy told a select committee of MPs last week that the federal government wanted to seek out “the proper balance” between promoting technological progress and protecting the rights of creative industries.
New public polls from Reset Tech and YouGov show that the general public overwhelmingly supports transparency in training AI models and technology corporations paying royalties to content creators.
