INTRODUCTION
In early March 2026, the European Parliament (EP) and the UK House of Lords (HoL) both adopted reports on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). In a period when courts around the world grapple with elementary questions of unlicensed AI training and infringements by generative AI systems, the reports suggest ways forward to reconcile the interests of authors, model and system providers as well as broader societal and public policy concerns. In the EU, the report follows the adoption of the 2019 Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (CDSM Directive), which introduced dedicated exceptions for text and data mining (TDM), and the 2024 EU Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), which addresses specific aspects of model training with only a brief consideration of copyright law …
Bernd Justin Jütte and Paulina Ryszkowska, European Parliament and House of Lords publish reports on AI and copyright: policy directions for artificial intelligence and copyright in the EU and the UK, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. Published: 17 June 2026.
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