It is reported that the UK House of Lords have voted 145 to 126, majority 19, in favour of a package of amendments to the Data (Use and Access) Bill aiming to tackle the unauthorised use of intellectual property by big tech companies scraping data for AI. The measures would explicitly subject AI companies to UK copyright law, regardless of where they are based, reveal the names and owners of web crawlers that currently operate anonymously and allow copyright owners to know when, where and how their work is used. This move deals a blow to the UK Government’s suggestion for introducing an exemption to copyright law for “text and data mining” (which is currently subject to consultation due to end in February 2025). The bill now proceeds to the House of Commons.
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