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Copyright and AI technical working group: roundtables

Published 15 December 2025

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Ministerial-led roundtables

Attendees: 16 July 2025

  • OpenAI
  • Meta
  • IETF AI Preferences Working Group
  • Cloudflare
  • Sony Music Entertainment
  • RELX
  • Amazon
  • Alliance for Intellectual Property
  • News Media Association
  • Publishers Association
  • Creative UK
  • BPI
  • Ivors Academy
  • British Film Institute
  • UK Music
  • Pact
  • The Guardian
  • IP Federation

Attendees: 23 July 2025

  • Human Native
  • Google
  • Synthesia
  • Microsoft
  • Center for Data Innovation
  • UK Bioindustry Association
  • Independent Society of Musicians
  • Association of Photographers
  • Equity
  • Professional Publishers Association
  • BBC
  • British Copyright Council
  • Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society
  • Design and Artists Copyright Society
  • Society of Authors
  • News UK
  • Chartered Institute of Patent Attorneys
  • Fashion Innovation Agency

Attendees: 16 September 2025

  • Mozilla Foundation
  • Cohere
  • Anthropic
  • Faculty AI
  • BBC
  • Apple
  • National Union of Journalists
  • Musicians’ Union
  • Music Publishers Association (MPA)
  • Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB)
  • Publishers’ Licensing Services
  • OpenUK
  • TechUK
  • IBM
  • Startup Coalition
  • Getty Images
  • PRS for Music
  • Adobe
  • Financial Times
  • Computer and Communications Industry Association
  • BT
  • Arts and Humanities Research Council
  • Research Libraries UK
  • AHRC/UKRI
  • CoSTAR
  • British Library
  • Bectu
  • Council of Music Makers
  • Newspaper Licencing Agency
  • Nvidia
  • Disney
  • The Royal Society
  • UK Interactive Entertainment

Official-led roundtables

Session 1: Wider Protections for Creators

  • Monday 24 November 2025
  • Chaired by Ruth Hannant, Director General, DCMS

This will seek views on additional protections such as safeguards against digital replicas, new personality rights, and labelling duties (e.g. watermarking AI-generated content, source attribution).

Attendees: session 1

  • Fashion Innovation Agency
  • Music Publishers Association (MPA)
  • Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
  • Association of Photographers (AoP)
  • YouTube
  • Warner Bros. Discovery
  • Ivors Academy
  • Featured Artists Coalition
  • Equity
  • News Media Association
  • MusicFutures
  • Synthesia
  • techUK
  • Meta
  • Anthropic

Session 2: Control and Technical Standards

  • Tuesday 25 November 2025
  • Chaired by Tom Crick, Chief Scientific Advisor, DCMS

This will explore what makes technical tools and standards effective for controlling content use, their current limitations, and whether legislation or guidance is needed to drive adoption and compliance. 

Attendees: session 2

  • CoSTAR / DECaDE (University of Surrey)
  • Cloudflare, Internet Architecture Board
  • Financial Times
  • Warner Music Group
  • The Guardian News & Media
  • Elsevier
  • Genotone.com
  • Sheridans
  • Google
  • Anthropic
  • Microsoft
  • BT Group
  • Synthesia
  • Adobe
  • Ukie (Represented by Secret Mode Games) 

Session 3: Information and Transparency

  • Tuesday 2 December 2025
  • Chaired by Ollie Ilott, Director General, DSIT

This will investigate what legal transparency duties could include (e.g. training data summaries, crawler disclosures) to address concerns from the creative industries without being overly burdensome for AI developers, and how they could vary by actor type.  

Attendees: session 3

  • BBC
  • Creative UK
  • Sony Music Entertainment
  • Publishers Association
  • Motion Picture Association (MPA)
  • DMG Media
  • British Film Institute (BFI)
  • Cloudflare
  • CREATe
  • The British Library
  • Google
  • OpenAI
  • Meta
  • Startup Coalition
  • BT Group
  • Bectu

Session 4: Licensing

  • Thursday 4 December 2025
  • Chaired by Adam Williams, CEO of the IPO

This will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the current licensing framework, especially for smaller creators and will look at potential reforms to facilitate licensing.

Attendees: session 4

  • Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)
  • News UK
  • Universal Music Group
  • Professional Publishers Association (PPA)
  • Getty Images
  • The Walt Disney Company
  • PRS for Music
  • Authors Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS)
  • Fairly Trained
  • Bioindustry Association
  • TechUK
  • Human Native
  • Amazon
  • IP Federation
  • Isomorphic Labs
  • Musicians’ Union
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