UK publishing industry chiefs have called on Rishi Sunak to safeguard the intellectual property rights of the creative industries from artificial intelligence ahead of a government-hosted summit on the developing technology.
In a letter seen by the Financial Times, the Publishers Association (PA) urged the prime minister to ensure that “UK intellectual property law . . . be respected when any content is ingested by AI systems and a licence obtained in advance”.
The warning from the trade body — which represents book, journal, audio and digital publishers worth about £7bn to Britain’s economy — reflects