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UK newspapers blanket their covers to protest loss of AI protections

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UK newspapers protest government proposals to weaken copyright protections against artificial intelligence.

Creatives would be able to opt out of the new “text and data mining” process via a so-called “rights reservation’ process.

Creators say that doing this without proper controls, transparency or fair payment is unfair and threatens their livelihoods.