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ACTUAL INTELLIGENCE FROM SANDI TOKSVIG
On 25 February the government’s controversial Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence came to an end, Gary Dalkin writes.
The day before, Writers’ Guild of Great Britain President Sandi Toksvig OBE wrote on the guild’s website, first setting out how currently copyright means writers get to decide how their work is sold, licensed or otherwise used:
‘But … the Government has stated that it prefers a very different model – one where writers, creators and other rights holders will need to reserve their rights, or ‘opt-out’, to stop AI companies from accessing the work and using it to train their models.