Campaigners for the creative industries have promised to come back fighting after the Government tried to scupper plans to protect their work from being stolen by AI companies.
MPs voted in favour of ditching a Lords amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill that would have given artists, writers and other creators the power to stop Big Tech firms from using their copyrighted works to train their AI models.
It means the matter will return to the Lords next week as part of the process used when the two Houses disagree on new laws, known as 'ping-pong'.
But campaigners in the Lords – and those who supported the amendment protecting copyright holders during a lengthy debate in the Commons yesterday – declared that the battle is far from over.
Crossbench peer Baroness Kidron, director of Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Reason, who led the campaign to support the creative industries, said: 'I will be returning with a new amendment. We will not take this lying down.
