Loading copyright material into an AI without compensating the author is illegal under the Berne Convention.
The UK wants to attract investment from US tech companies, so is enacting a waiver in the national interest (as allowed by the Berne Convention) to allowed UK copyrighted material to be loaded into AI without compensation by default.
However the UK government is including an opt-out facility, expected to be at the publisher level.
As a UKaian, my works would be subject to the waiver, but if the opt-out is at the publisher level and my work is published by WLPC, the the country in which WLPC is registered may be pertinent. Is that country a signatory to the Berne Convention and has it enacted a copyright waiver for AI?
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