UK Music Chief Welcomes Findings From Government’s Copyright & AI Statement of Progress

16.12.2025: UK Music Chief Executive Tom Kiehl has welcomed the findings from the Government's Copyright and AI Statement of Progress.

The progress statement outlines the Government's work on copyright and AI to date, as well as the steps being taken as it prepares its report and economic impact assessment.

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 the Government's progress statement in full here.