The Data (Use and Access) Bill has passed both houses of the UK Parliament, and now awaits royal assent. The contentious AI and copyright proposals which were behind the back and forth were finally dropped, with the compromise being that the Secretary of State has committed to draft legislation with provisions on transparency for copyright owners regarding using copyrighted works for training AI models. In the meantime, the UK government has agreed to publish a report on its copyright and AI proposals, including on enforcement and AI models trained abroad, within nine months of the bill getting royal assent, with an interim report to be published within six months.
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