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The AI regulation conversation is obviously focussed on AI safety, but I hope the Govt doesn't lose sight of the copyright issue. NLP users need to be able to easily and legitimately access content and approaching 1000s of individual websites for permission is prohibitive.
For those who don't follow this issue, the UK Govt had proposed to essentially waive copyright for text and data mining, but this proposal was dropped due to (understandable) objections from copyright holders.
As someone trying to build tools using NLP to mine large volumes of text, I don't mind paying for copyright content, but we definitely need a process that is more streamlined internationally.
