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Part of Culture, Media and Sport – in the House of Commons at on 16 October 2025.

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Photo of Pete Wishart Pete Wishart Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Constitution), SNP Deputy Leader, Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Home Affairs)

The Government continue their haphazard approach to artificial intelligence and copyright. I wish they would get that resolved. One thing that has concerned and upset the sector was the comments of a newly appointed special adviser to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, who said,

“whether or not you philosophically believe the big AI firms should compensate content creators, they in practice will never legally have to”.

I am really hoping that the Secretary of State distances herself from those comments and that that is not the intention of her Government.

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