Share your views on AI with the government
The government has launched a consultation on AI regulation which includes a proposal to change copyright law to introduce a “text and data mining (TDM) exception” that would allow AI companies to use all musicians’ and composers’ work without asking for permission or paying royalties or licence fees.
The consultation closes at 11.59pm on Tuesday 25th February 2025, so it’s vital you act now and let the government know what you think.
Use our guide to complete the consultation
About the consultation
The government are consulting on their plans, and by sharing your views you can make it clear that songwriters and composers want AI companies to get consent before they use your works in training data, are transparent about what content they have used, and that any AI creations are clearly labelled.
The consultation is detailed, but you don’t need to be an expert on copyright or AI to respond to the key points, and you do not need to answer all the questions. We have prepared a short guide to help you complete the key parts of the consultation.
What is text and data mining?
Text and data mining is a technique used by AI companies to analyse content on the internet and gather this data for ingestion into AI models to create and train them. This is often done by web-scrapers which crawl the web for content to ingest which is then analysed for patterns and insights that can be used to train AI models.
Under current UK law, AI companies need to license your work if they want to use text and data mining for commercial purposes.
Write to your MP
One of the most effective ways to express your views about the government’s proposals is by writing to your MP.
Call on them to safeguard creative rights in AI and ask them to write to government ministers about this critical issue.
This will send MPs a clear message that creatives oppose the weakening of copyright protections for the benefit of AI companies and want our rights to be protected.