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High Court ruling reshapes UK position on AI training data
Judges find that commercial scraping of copyrighted works without licence falls outside text-and-data-mining exceptions.
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Imogen Walsh
Yesterday · 6 min read
A High Court ruling handed down this week has substantially narrowed the circumstances in which AI developers can train models on copyrighted material without licence, finding that the existing text-and-data-mining exception does not extend to large-scale commercial scraping.
The judgment is the first major decision of its kind in the UK and is expected to be relied on heavily by rights-holders pursuing similar cases in the Chancery Division.
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