“Since that would violate the Berne Convention and infuriate every “content provider” (from individual artists and writers to major studios and publishers) ever, we hope and expect that this exemption will not be granted.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
The UK will not grant OpenAI the exemption from copyright responsibility it requested.
Assessment: Unresolved No deadline stated on 2026-10-29 Evidence as of
Where and when Gary Marcus wrote it
Marcus on AI, DALL-E’s New Guardrails: Fast, Furious, and Far from Airtight, paragraph 4.
- Said
- Source observed
- live page, full text, public
- Evidence as of
- the cutoff for this assessment
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What the claim commits to
- Kind
- Forecast
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
- None stated. This site does not add one.
- Deadline state when assessed
- No deadline stated
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No deadline stated (the release’s reference date)
From the speaker
- we hope and expect
- this exemption will not be granted
- the United Kingdom
Our interpretation
- Assess the expectation about UK policy, rather than the accompanying hope or separate assertion about the Berne Convention.
- The contextual reading is a copyright exception allowing commercial AI training of the kind OpenAI sought, whether industry-wide or company-specific.
- The prediction gives no deadline.
- A consultation proposal, loss of preferred-policy status, or continued absence of legislation does not by itself finally dispose of the request.
Counts as supported if: A definitive government or legislative disposition rejects the identifiable requested exemption and closes that proposal.
Counts as contradicted if: The UK enacts an applicable copyright exemption permitting the commercial training uses covered by the request.
Retrospective: these criteria were written after the outcome was public.
Current assessment
Did the forecast come true?
Outcome: Unresolved
The record was checked, and the evidence available by the cutoff does not settle it.
Scored on a plain reading. The speaker named no measure for this claim, so it was judged on the reading an informed reader would take, stated below under our interpretation. Both reviews had to find that reading fair.
- Evidence as of
- Deadline state when assessed
- No deadline stated
- Assessment recorded
- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
Rationale
The forecast has no deadline. The March 2026 government report moved away from its preferred broad opt-out exception, but expressly left alternative approaches under consideration. That is consistent with Marcus's expectation without conclusively settling it. The search did not establish an event satisfying the early-resolution rule. Neither delay nor the absence of a located enactment proves that the exemption will never be granted.
Limitations
- The exemption Marcus described is not precisely identified.
- The latest fully readable official policy record cited is from March 2026.
- This assessment does not adjudicate the separate Berne Convention assertion.
Evidence (1 item)
Context only: UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology; Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Intellectual Property Office,
other potential policy approaches
Why it matters here: The official report says the broad opt-out exception is no longer preferred, but proposes further evidence gathering and alternative approaches. That does not meet the final-disposition rule.
- Publisher
- UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology; Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Intellectual Property Office
- Kind of source
- Secondary summary
- Describes events of
- Public from
What would settle it
An enacted UK exemption covering the identified commercial AI training uses would contradict the forecast. An explicit final disposition rejecting and closing that identifiable request would support it.
Where it was said (1)
Said once in the sources this register covers.
: Marcus on AI, DALL-E’s New Guardrails: Fast, Furious, and Far from Airtight
Since that would violate the Berne Convention and infuriate every “content provider” (from individual artists and writers to major studios and publishers) ever, we hope and expect that this exemption will not be granted.
- Where
- paragraph 4
- Published
- 2024-01-10
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
Assessment versions
- Assessment marcus-dall-es-new-guardrails-fast-furious-9c4bb1-a1: Current. Outcome: Unresolved. Evidence as of 2026-10-28. Public date not recorded.
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