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The Law Show is your guide to the law and the legal decisions that have a bearing on everyone in the UK.

Weekly conversation that will give you an in-depth understanding of the law stories making news and the legal decisions that could have a bearing on everyone in the UK. Whether it's unpicking a landmark legal ruling, explaining how laws are made or seeking clarity for you on a legal issue, The Law Show will be your guide.

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The Law Show: Strikes Minimum Service Levels

14/03/2023

Strikes Minimum Service Levels

BBC Radio 4 - The Law Show, Strikes Minimum Service Levels

A law to minimise strike impacts; legal advisors helping patients' families; AI copyright.

What impact could the new Strikes Minimum Service Levels bill have? How 'health and justice partnerships' are helping patients. And AI copyright: protect the source or the product?

There are strikes again this week, by junior doctors, and train and tube drivers. The government's Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) bill aims to require sectors like health, education and transport to provide a "minimum" of services even on strike days.  It would let employers, including government departments, issue "work notices" - lists of which staff have to work on strike days. But how will they decide who should be on the "work notice"?

When someone is seriously ill, they or their family are often faced with other problems, such as a sudden drop in income, or unsuitable housing. Many don't know what help they're entitled to, or how to get it. Joshua Rozenberg visits a "Health Justice Partnership", where doctors and legal advisers are located in the same building, and patients are referred to the advice team. He finds it's making a big difference to families.

When a piece of Artificial Intelligence software learns about images by being fed pre-existing, copyrighted versions of images, and then goes on to produce a new image of its own, is that a breach of copyright? That's what the High Court in London will have to decide, in a case in which Getty Images - a digital picture library - is suing Stability AI, whose artificial intelligence image-generating software was trained with a very large number of images, including (but not only) Getty's.  The court's decision will in effect become new law. What impact could it have on the digital, creative sector? 

Presenter: Joshua Rozenberg 
Producer: Arlene Gregorius 
Researcher: Diane Richardson 
Editor: Simon Watts

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