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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Consultation: What visual artists and rightsholders need to know

To help artists, estates and the wider public understand the Government's proposals on AI regulation, and their potential impacts on visual artists and rightsholders, DACS has published our views on the consultation.

• 13 February 2025

DACS convenes panel on supporting creative futures at AI Fringe 2025

DACS convenes a panel at the AI Fringe 2025, coinciding with the Paris AI Action Summit.

• 5 February 2025

Artists’ earnings, fair pay for creators and AI challenges raised in House of Commons Creative Industries Debate

Artists’ earnings, fair pay for creators and AI challenges raised in House of Commons Creative Industries Debate

• 28 January 2025

DACS speaks at joint APPG meeting on Copyright and AI

As secretariat of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Visual Arts and Artists, DACS was invited to present at a joint meeting held this week, on the ongoing copyright and AI consultation.

• 24 January 2025

DACS and Smart Fund partners attend roundtable on 'Solutions to arts and culture funding across the UK’

DACS – along with our Smart Fund partners ALCS, BECS, Directors UK and PICSEL – attended a Labour roundtable organised by Gareth Snell MP (Stoke-on-Trent) and Lord Bassam convened to discuss the pressing challenges facing all creators.

• 22 January 2025

APPG for Visual Arts and Artists discusses falling remuneration for artists in its first meeting of 2025

The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Visual Arts and Artists held today its first meeting of 2025, where the recently published Artists’ Earnings and Contracts Report was discussed in depth.

• 21 January 2025

DACS joins with Creative Rights in AI Coalition and calls on the Government to enforce existing UK copyright regime

DACS and other organisations part of the Creative Rights in AI Coalition are calling on the government to provide assurances that all options in the Copyright and AI Consultation – including enforcing the existing copyright regime with transparency provisions – remain on the table.

• 15 January 2025

Protecting creative copyright raised in House of Commons debate on copyright and Artificial Intelligence consultation

MPs in the House of Commons today called for assurances that a consultation on copyright and AI will safeguard creators' ability to protect and monetise their work.

• 8 January 2025

UK Government announces consultation on AI and Copyright

The UK Government has announced an open consultation seeking “views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.”

• 17 December 2024

Earning half the minimum wage: new report reveals pressures on artists to sustain creative life

Margaret Heffernan, DACS Chair, spoke to The Conversation on the recent artists' earnings report, highlighting the support artists need in the face of new emerging technologies to continue to create and thrive.

• 16 December 2024

SCOOP - A new, collaborative, cross-industry solution to sustain news journalism and photojournalism in the UK

A new joint venture between the non-profit licensing organisations representing freelance journalists and photojournalists

• 5 December 2024

Why we collaborate: A collective voice for artists

a-n, CVAN and DACS explain why we are working together to keep artists and the visual arts at the forefront of discussions in Westminster

• 4 December 2024