Artificial Intelligence Act and Copyright

Abstract

This article offers a critical analysis of the provisions included in the finally approved version of the Artificial Intelligence Act that affect copyright. On the one hand, it discusses the obligations that the AI Act imposes on providers of General Purpose Artificial Intelligence Models (GPAIMs) consisting of (i) putting in place a policy to comply with Union law on copyright and related rights, and in particular to identify and comply with reservation of rights expressed by rightholders; and (ii) drawing up and making publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary about the content used for training of the GPAIM, according to a template provided by the AI Office (article 54 AI Act); and, on the other hand, the obligations of transparency in relation to the synthetic content generated by AI and to deepfakes (article 50 AI Act).