AI: Intellectual Property Rights

Lord Cromwell Excerpts

Thursday 9th May 2024 Lords Chamber

[Lord Ranger of Northwood (Con)]

My Lords—

[Lord Cromwell (CB)]

My Lords—

[Noble Lords]

Cross Bench!

[Lord Cromwell (CB)]

I am most grateful. AI is already creating IP of its own, but it is unable to register it because, by law, a human being needs to register IP. In trying to create a legislative bottle into which this genie could be reinserted, have the Government taken that into account?

[Viscount Camrose (Con)]

The noble Lord raises a very interesting question. The laws surrounding the copyrighting of machine-generated content are getting fairly elderly now and certainly need to be looked at as part of the overall position going forward.