Priorities for Generative AI Regulation in the UK: CREATe response to the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF)

In July 2023 the UK Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum (DRCF) issued a request for comment on the status of generative AI and priority regulatory concerns. The DRCF is comprised of four of the UK’s major regulators: the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Ofcom. As a research centre with a focus on technology regulation and evidence-based policy making, CREATe is undertaking research that addresses the specific questions raised by the DRCF. As we lay out in our response, the challenges posed by generative AI will be complex, imposing a need for regulators to actively engage with evidence on these dynamic and multifaceted effects. This response addresses key questions raised by the DRCF. Notably, the anticipated direction of travel of innovation of GenAI in the near term, an assessment of what citizens and consumers are currently doing with GenAI, how regulated services are making use of GenAI, what gaps in regulation currently exist, and how future regulation can be balanced with competition, innovation, consumer wellbeing and people’s rights and freedoms. We suggest that addressing these issues requires an interdisciplinary approach. Regulatory responses will need to be cross-domain, adaptable, and scalable to confront these multi-faceted challenges. Research which takes a holistic view incorporating various legal and policy domains can contribute to supporting cross-domain regulatory initiatives

Chronicling Collaboration: CREATe, CopyrightUser.org and the Digital Catapult

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Report – CREATe Public Lecture by Professor Lionel Bently on Copyright and Quotation: Beyond the Textual Paradigm

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Report: CREATe researchers present on copyright exceptions for education and research at SCURL conference (Part 1)

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Lawful Creativity or Creative Lawfulness: CopyrightUser.org at the EYE International Conference 2018

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Copying & Creativity [video]

The video Copying & Creativity was inspired by the Copying, Creativity and Copyright – a CREATe Working Paper by Ronan Deazley and Bartolomeo Meletti that offers insights into the creative process behind The Adventure of the Girl with the Light Blue Hair, and makes the case for understanding copying as a positive phenomenon in helping us learn and innovate, develop and engage with others. Copying plays a crucial role at all stages of our development as human beings, from DNA replication to the way in which physical synchronicity helps us establish connections and relationships with friends and family, and beyond. Copying can also facilitate freedom of expression and political engagement, by enabling people and communities across the globe come together and speak with one voice. But what about copying when creating new works of literature, drama, music or art? The video explores the complex relationship between copying and creativity through the eyes of a young art student

Copying, Creativity and Copyright

This Working Paper by Professor Ronan Deazley (Queen’s University Belfast) and CREATe researcher Bartolomeo Meletti – offers insights into the creative process behind their award-winning film The Adventure of the Girl with the Light Blue Hair, and makes the case for understanding copying as a positive phenomenon in helping us learn and innovate, develop and engage with others. Copying plays a crucial role at all stages of our development as human beings, from DNA replication to the way in which physical synchronicity helps us establish connections and relationships with friends and family, and beyond. Copying can also facilitate freedom of expression and political engagement, by enabling people and communities across the globe come together and speak with one voice. Consider, for example the global response to the killings in Paris at the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine on 7 January 2015. Three simple words – Je Suis Charlie – have been copied (creatively and otherwise) and re-copied millions of times all over the world to commemorate those who lost their lives during that attack. This is copying as remembrance, free speech, solidarity and protest

The Game is On! Copyright and creativity with Sherlock Holmes

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