Generates video with AI, in the United Kingdom

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, ss. 3, 16 and 21 · Read the law's page

• Get the copyright owner's licence before you copy a work, issue copies of it to the public, rent or lend it to the public, perform, show or play it in public, communicate it to the public, or make an adaptation of it (s. 16(1)).
• Do not do, or authorise another to do, any of those acts without the licence of the copyright owner: a person who does so infringes the copyright (s. 16(2)).
• Treat copying or otherwise dealing with a substantial part of a work, directly or indirectly, as dealing with the work, whether or not any intervening act itself infringes copyright (s. 16(3)).
• Treat a computer program, and preparatory design material for one, as a literary work in which copyright subsists once it is recorded, in writing or otherwise (s. 3(1) and (2)).
• Treat an arrangement or altered version of a computer program, or a translation of it, including a version converted into or out of a computer language or code or into a different one, as an adaptation, and making one as an act restricted by the copyright (s. 21(1), (3)(ab) and (4)).
• Check the acts permitted in relation to copyright works in Chapter III and the copyright licensing provisions in Chapter VII, to which the restrictions are subject (s. 16(4)).

Consumer Rights Act 2015, c. 15, s. 46 · Read the law's page

• This binds a trader that supplies digital content to a consumer under a contract; a trader acts for purposes relating to its trade, business, craft or profession, and a consumer is an individual acting wholly or mainly outside them (sections 2(2), 2(3) and 46(1)).
• If your digital content damages the consumer's device or other digital content, and the damage would not have occurred had you exercised reasonable care and skill, repair the damage within a reasonable time and without significant inconvenience to the consumer, bearing the necessary costs, or compensate the consumer with an appropriate payment (section 46(1) to (3)).
• Pay any compensation without undue delay and within 14 days of agreeing that the consumer is entitled to it, and charge the consumer no fee for the payment (section 46(5) and (6)).

Online Safety Act 2023, c. 50

• If you run a user-to-user service with links to the United Kingdom, assess the risk of illegal content, use proportionate measures to prevent users encountering priority illegal content, and take illegal content down swiftly once alerted to it.
• Do not share, or threaten to share, an intimate photograph or film of a person without their consent, including an AI-generated one.
• Take down reported intimate image content, including an AI-generated intimate image, no later than 48 hours after a report by the person it shows or someone acting on their behalf.
• Carry out a further illegal content risk assessment before making any significant change to the service's design or operation.

Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, c. 18, s. 138, inserting ss. 66E-66H into the Sexual Offences Act 2003 · Read the law's page

• Do not intentionally create an image that appears to be an intimate photograph or film of another adult without that adult's consent.
• Do not intentionally request the creation of such an image, or request that it include or exclude anything in particular, without that adult's consent.
• The request offence can be committed even if the image is never created, and regardless of where in the world the person making or receiving the request is located.

Crime and Policing Act 2026, c. 20, s. 99, inserting ss. 66I-66L into the Sexual Offences Act 2003 · Read the law's page

• Do not make or adapt a thing, or supply or offer to supply a thing, for use as a generator of purported intimate images, meaning a thing for creating, or facilitating the creation of, purported intimate images of a person.
• A thing includes a program, information in electronic form and a service, and you are treated as making, adapting, supplying or offering the thing for that use if a reasonable person, having regard to all the circumstances, would consider that you do.
• It is a defense to prove that you took all reasonable steps to prevent the thing being used for creating, or facilitating the creation of, purported intimate images of a person without the person's consent.
• A service provider that only provides access to a communication network, or transmits or temporarily stores information provided by a user in the ways section 66K describes, does not commit the offense, and a provider that stores a user's information keeps that protection only if it did not know the information was or contained a generator of purported intimate images and promptly removes it or disables access once it knows.

Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Council of Europe Treaty Series No. 225, opened for signature 5 September 2024; signed by the United Kingdom, not yet ratified · Read the law's page

• Each Party to the Convention must adopt or maintain measures for the identification, assessment, prevention and mitigation of risks posed by artificial intelligence systems, considering their actual and potential impacts on human rights, democracy and the rule of law (Article 16(1)).
• Each Party must seek to ensure, as appropriate for the context, that persons interacting with an AI system are notified that they are interacting with such a system rather than with a human, and must adopt or maintain measures for accessible and effective remedies, as far as its international obligations require and its domestic legal system allows, including measures to ensure that information about an AI system is sufficient for affected persons to contest a decision made or substantially informed by its use.
• Each Party must provide a report to the Conference of the Parties within the first two years after becoming a Party, and then periodically thereafter, with details of the activities it has undertaken to give effect to Article 3, paragraph 1, subparagraphs a and b of the Convention (Article 24(1)).

Crime and Policing Act 2026, c. 20, s. 72, inserting ss. 46A-46C into the Sexual Offences Act 2003 · Read the law's page

• Do not make or adapt a thing, including a program, information in electronic form or a service, for use for creating, or facilitating the creation of, child sexual abuse images.
• Do not possess, supply or offer to supply a thing that is made or adapted for that use; it is a defense to prove that you did not know, and had no cause to suspect, that the thing was a CSA image-generator.
• A service provider that only provides access to a communication network, or transmits or temporarily stores information provided by a user in the ways the section describes, does not commit the offense, and a provider that stores a user's information keeps that protection only if it did not know the information was or contained a CSA image-generator and promptly removes it or disables access once it knows.

Crime and Policing Act 2026, c. 20, s. 73, inserting Arts. 42A-42C into the Sexual Offences (Northern Ireland) Order 2008 · Read the law's page

• Do not make or adapt a thing, including a program, information in electronic form or a service, for use for creating, or facilitating the creation of, child sexual abuse images.
• Do not possess, supply or offer to supply a thing that is made or adapted for that use; it is a defense to prove that you did not know, and had no cause to suspect, that the thing was a CSA image-generator.
• A service provider that only provides access to a communication network, or transmits or temporarily stores information provided by a user in the ways the section describes, does not commit the offense, and a provider that stores a user's information keeps that protection only if it did not know the information was or contained a CSA image-generator and promptly removes it or disables access once it knows.

Crime and Policing Act 2026, c. 20, s. 74, inserting ss. 52D-52E into the Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982 · Read the law's page

• Do not make or adapt a thing, including a program, information in electronic form or a service, for use for creating, or facilitating the creation of, child sexual abuse images.
• Do not possess, supply or offer to supply a thing that is made or adapted for that use; it is a defense to prove that you did not know, and had no cause to suspect, that the thing was a CSA image-generator.
• A service provider that only provides access to a communication network, or transmits or temporarily stores information provided by a user in the ways the section describes, does not commit the offense, and a provider that stores a user's information keeps that protection only if it did not know the information was or contained a CSA image-generator and promptly removes it or disables access once it knows.

Crime and Policing Act 2026, c. 20, s. 75, amending s. 69 of the Serious Crime Act 2015 · Read the law's page

• Do not possess any item, meaning anything in which information of any description is recorded, that contains advice or guidance about abusing children sexually or creating CSA images.
• It is a defense to prove a legitimate reason for being in possession of the item, that you had not read, viewed or listened to it and did not know and had no reason to suspect what it contained, or that it was sent to you without any request and you did not keep it for an unreasonable time.
• If you provide an information society service, section 69(7) of the 2015 Act points to Schedule 3 to that Act for special provision about your position.

Crime and Policing Act 2026, c. 20, s. 76, inserting ss. 41A-41B into the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act 2009 · Read the law's page

• Do not possess any item, meaning anything in which information of any description is recorded, that contains advice or guidance about abusing children sexually or creating CSA images.
• It is a defense to prove a legitimate reason for being in possession of the item, that you had not read, viewed or listened to it and did not know and had no reason to suspect what it contained, or that it was sent to you without any request and you did not keep it for an unreasonable time.
• A service provider that only provides access to a communication network, or transmits or temporarily stores information provided by a user in the ways section 41B describes, does not commit the offense, and a provider that stores a user's information keeps that protection only if it did not know the information was or contained such advice or guidance and promptly removes it or disables access once it knows.