AI training on copyrighted content, licensing frameworks, and protecting website intellectual property from AI scraping.
AI companies have trained their models on billions of web pages, often without asking. The legal battles are playing out now: publishers suing over training data, the UK debating opt-out frameworks, and website owners wondering whether their content is feeding models they never consented to.
These articles cover the copyright side of AI: licensing developments, court cases, the technical controls available to site owners (robots.txt, ai.txt), and how UK intellectual property law is adapting to a world where AI can reproduce your content in seconds.
A 180-page Lords report warns that AI companies are scraping UK website content without permission, payment, or disclosure. The committee wants licensing, not opt-out. Here's what it means for the 5.5 million UK businesses publishing content online, and five steps you can take before the law catches up.
