Submitted on Wednesday 5th March 2025
Rejected on Tuesday 22nd April 2025
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
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Change the proposed 'opt out' policy around AI models scraping copyrighted works
To debate as a matter of great urgency the proposal to allow the Silicon Valley Big Tech oligarchs to scrape copyrighted content created by UK content creators to train their generative AI systems. The current proposals mean creators have to 'opt out' of allowing these systems access to their works.
The UK creative industries as a whole bring in billions of pounds worth of revenue into the economy each year. If this proposal is allowed to go through a vast amount of this revenue will be siphoned off to the Silicon Valley tech giants. Potentially there will be no economic model for real artists producing new work to support themselves and very likely spell the end of the UK creative industries.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/715896
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