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UK ministers consider changing AI plans to protect creative industries

Exclusive: partial climbdown over use of work protected by copyright considered after intense lobbying by top artists

Sources have told the Guardian that ministers have accepted the need to protect British creative industries from the plans, which would otherwise have made their work available for access by AI companies unless they deliberately opted out. Abandoning the plans altogether is not seen as an option as it would put British AI companies at a disadvantage, but there are ways to protect certain sectors which are particularly important, and to make sure big US technology giants are not getting all the benefit.” Speaking to reporters during a trade mission to Delhi, the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, said creators have “got to be able to earn a decent living… [that is] absolutely something we have to embed for the future”.

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