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UK government ditches AI copyright protection proposals from data bill

By Frank Hersey ( March 11, 2025, 18:33 GMT | Insight) -- Proposed changes to the UK data reform bill inserted by lawmakers have been removed again by the government, including protections for rights holders from their work being scraped for AI model training and requirements on transparency. Many of the recent amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill were supported in principle but couldn't be part of the legislation in question, data minister Chris Bryant said, as a consultation on AI and copyright had yielded 11,000 responses and would take so much bandwidth  and time to process.Proposed changes to the UK data reform bill inserted by lawmakers have been removed again by the government, including protections for rights holders from their work being scraped for AI model training and requirements on transparency....

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