Ms Deirdre Veldon:

If we look at the transposition of the copyright directive, I think it has an application here. We now have ten years of experience of the copyright directive not really working effectively to bring big tech to the table, to get the data from big tech, to get forced arbitration or some kind of compellability for those companies to get involved with it. For AI, it is pretty similar. We have the EU AI Act coming down the tracks at us. We can assert our copyright in the current framework without getting into the business of the complications that the EU AI Act introduces for us. A discussion is ongoing at EU level to look at that again, and there is talk that a pause may be put on it.