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UK government praises ‘greatest innovators’ but rejects campaign calls to rein in AI misuse Collective efforts are to continue across the broad content industry - including the news sector - to ensure AI companies pay for use of copyright material. Musicians, authors, artists and journalists had anticipated the decision of the government last night to reject amendments in the House of Commons to the [...]

UK Government Orders Task Forces To Work On Needs of Content-Makers and AI Systems Members of Parliament from across the political divide today (Wednesday, May 7th) lined up to praise the news media sector's value as one part of the UK's 'superpower' content industry. They were speaking during a Commons debate about government proposals seeking to identify how both the [...]

The 2025 World Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) paints a stark picture: global press freedom is now in a “difficult situation,” driven largely by unprecedented economic pressures on news outlets and persistent threats—physical, legal, and political—against journalists. For the first time, RSF’s economic indicator shows that nearly 90% of countries report media outlets struggling to survive financially [...]

NMC calls for continued protection of journalists’ right to use short, real-time event footage for news coverage The European Commission has launched a Call for Evidence to assess the effects of its 2023 Recommendation on combating online piracy of sports and other live events. The Recommendation, adopted on 4 May 2023, encourages Member States, rightsholders, online service providers and other players to [...]

What it Takes to Take a Photo Technically, a photograph can be captured in a split second, sometimes in the world of fast-moving sport 1/1000th of a second. However, an image never shows what has happened before its creation: the human preparation and creativity; the investment in time; the equipment and other resources; and the hours - sometimes months and [...]