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UK licensing bodies have announced a "pioneering" collective licence that will allow authors to be paid for the use of their works to train generative AI models.

The Copyright Licensing Agency

CLA is the UK's Reproduction Rights Organisation. It is responsible for looking after the interests of rights owners over the copying of books, journals and periodicals. A non-profit making company, it is owned by its members, the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society and the Publishers Licensing Society. www.cla.co.uk

(CLA) - which is directed by the Publishers' Licensing Services (PLS) and the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), representing publishers and authors - will develop the licence, set to be the first of its kind in the UK.

Expected to be made available to AI developers this summer, it will allow copyright holders "who are not in a position to negotiate direct licensing agreements with AI developers" to be paid for the use of their works.