UK Music Chief Executive response to Government AI & Copyright Statement of Progress

16 December 2025 - Press release

In response to the Government’s Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Statement of Progress published today, UK Music Chief Executive Tom Kiehl said:

“UK Music welcomes the findings from the Government’s AI consultation, which vindicates the position taken by UK Music and the wider creative and ethical AI industries. Given only 3% of the 11,500 respondents backed the government’s preferred text and data mining (TDM) exception, and 95% supported licensing of training data by strengthening or keeping UK copyright as it is, the government must now unilaterally drop its anti-creator, anti-business proposal and back British music and creative industries.

"The Government must also establish a robust regulatory framework for AI firms’ interaction with copyright protected works, requiring transparency, labelling and a requirement for AI companies to comply with UK copyright laws regardless of where models are trained, in return for UK market access.”

You can read more on the Government’s Statement of Progress here Copyright and artificial intelligence statement of progress under Section 137 Data (Use and Access) Act - GOV.UK