Lead member
Baroness Kidron
Crossbench, Life peer
Lords
Decision
Withdrawn
The amendment was withdrawn after debate and no decision was taken on it.
Amendment text
After Clause 132
insert the following new Clause—
“Compliance with UK copyright law by operators of web crawlers and general-purpose AI models
(1)
The Secretary of State must by regulations make provisions clarifying the steps the operators of web crawlers and general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) models must take to comply with United Kingdom copyright law, including the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
(2)
The provisions made under subsection (1) must apply if the products and services of such operators are marketed in the United Kingdom.
(3)
The provisions made under subsection (1) must apply to the entire lifecycle of a general-purpose AI model, including but not limited to—
(a)
pre-training,
(b)
fine tuning, and
(c)
grounding and retrieval-augmented generation.
(4)
The Secretary of State must lay before Parliament a draft of the statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (1) within six months of the day on which this Act is passed and the regulations are subject to the affirmative procedure.”
Member's explanatory statement
This amendment would require operators of internet scrapers and general-purpose AI models to comply with UK copyright law, and to abide by a set of procedures.