Please use the following as inspiration for emailing your local MP.
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Dear [Name, Surname]
I am writing as a member of your constituency to ask for your support for tabled amendments NC2 through to NC6 to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, aimed at strengthening and protecting the UK’s creative sector. The Bill is currently at Report Stage and is expected to be debated again after the Easter recess.
I am a TV/film director, {insert credits}, and as a freelancer, the residual and royalty income I earn from the copyright in my work helps support me in my career and enables me to create new works.
The success of our creative industries – worth £125bn to the UK economy - is underpinned by copyright protections. But these intellectual property rights are at risk of being undermined by AI, threatening the livelihoods of creators such as myself and thousands of other directors, writers, composers and artists.
Creative works protected by copyright, such as music, images, books and audiovisual works including TV and film, are routinely scraped from the internet by generative AI developers without permission or payment. These creative works are then used to train AI tools and generate unlimited numbers of outputs.
Creators want to embrace generative AI and realise the many opportunities it offers. But this will only be possible if the Government takes action to:
• Protect copyright, in turn supporting a dynamic licensing market that ensures creators are fairly remunerated and provides certainty for businesses.
• Introduce meaningful transparency obligations on generative AI developers to disclose detailed information on all creative works used in AI training.
• Take advantage of the UK’s world-leading creative and tech sectors to set a global standard for AI that supports, not undermines, the creative industries.
Transparency is a key first step in making sure that creators are fairly compensated for the use of their works. AI developers aren’t currently disclosing the works they are using to train their models, therefore as creators it’s not possible to know how our works are being used, seek compensation for these uses or enforce our rights. If AI developers want to use copyright materials to train their AI models, it is only reasonable that rightsholders are provided with transparency over what materials are being used. It should not be left to individual rightsholders and creators to have to try to find this out.
The tabled amendments NC2 through to NC6 to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, recognise that transparency - coupled with a strong copyright protection framework – are important to protecting the UK's creative economy. I would like to ask you to support these amendments.
You may have seen from articles in the media that newly-published research shows strong support among your Parliamentary colleagues for such measures, with 92% of MPs believing AI developers should be required to be transparent with authors and publishers about the materials used to train their LLMs (large language models).
Film and TV are a great British success story, which brings pride to our communities and is celebrated globally. It’s important that we keep them that way.
Yours sincerely,