Submission to UK Copyright and AI Consultation

NZCIP Co-Director Dr Joshua Yuvaraj recently made a submission to the UK’s Copyright and AI Consultation, which closed on 25 February 2025. His submission focuses on whether, and how, UK copyright law should protect songs, stories, images and other types of works produced using generative AI technologies like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT. It recommends amending a specific, rarely-used provision in UK copyright law regulating ‘computer-generated’ works to better target AI outputs, balancing the need to protect human creativity without sacrificing innovation using new technologies. 

Aotearoa New Zealand is one of the few countries to copy this provision in its own copyright law. This means any changes in the UK are likely to influence decisions about the protection of AI-produced works in NZ. To that end Dr Yuvaraj has provided a copy of his submission to the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, in anticipation of the long-stalled review of the Copyright Act 1994 being resumed. 

The submission is available on SSRN here. Dr Yuvaraj is happy to present his research on copyright and AI more generally to businesses, law and IP firms, and government agencies. For more information, please contact NZCIP at nzcip@auckland.ac.nz.