ALCS is cheering a House of Lords report that tells the UK not to hand AI companies a giant copyright freebie: skip a broad training exception, lean on licensing, and make developers disclose what's in their datasets.
Collecting-society types see an opening for collective licenses for generative AI. Deputy CEO Richard Combes basically says "great - now actually do something that protects the rights system we already have."
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