Governments around the world are quietly wrestling with one of the most consequential policy questions of the decade: how do you protect the rights of the people who make things, while simultaneously not strangling the development of AI systems that are reshaping entire industries? The European Union moved first with its AI Act and a text and data mining exception that drew considerable criticism from rights-holders. The United States remains a patchwork of litigation and legislative inertia. Australia, notably, has already signalled it will not introduce a broad commercial exception. Now the UK has entered the debate in…
