Google IP boss: We shouldn’t pay for AI training on ‘freely available’ content
Roxanne Carter declines to answer about publishers’ ability to opt out of AI Overviews.
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Foreign state-owned investors cleared to hold 15% stake in UK newspapers
Lords vote clears way for Telegraph ownership limbo to end with UAE stake.
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UK Government shelves taking action against SLAPP anti-media lawsuits
Response to Future of News inquiry “fails to reflect severity of situation”.
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Lords amendments offer AI copyright protection for publishers
Data (Use and Access) Bill will now go back to Commons with Government urged to hear concerns.
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The government last week ruled out immediate legislation, saying SLAPPs were a “complex area”.
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Warning of imminent, ‘irreparable’ fracture of news landscape without action
The UK’s news landscape could fracture “irreparably” in the next five to ten years with “grim” implications, a new Parliamentary…
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Ofcom bosses defend ‘degree of flexibility’ over politicians presenting on GB News
Dame Melanie Dawes emphasised the “importance of the context” of a broadcast to Ofcom’s decisions.
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Tax, rather than adverts or subscriptions, should fund BBC says House of Lords
The House of Lords committee on the future of BBC funding has rejected the idea the corporation can be adequately…
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