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Copyright: the line so far
10 developments and 13 rules, in date order. Built automatically from everything tagged with this topic.
- Rule · ProposedBRBrazil AI Bill (Marco Legal da IA)
- Rule · In forceCNGenerative AI Measures
- Rule · Partly in forceEUEU AI Act
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- EU publishes General-Purpose AI Code of Practice ahead of AI Act model duties
It became the practical compliance template for frontier model providers selling into the EU, including systemic-risk assessment and incident reporting duties.
Also on Transparency, not licensing
- Rule · In forceEUGPAI guidelines and training-data summary template
- Rule · In forceITItalian AI Law
- UK High Court rejects Getty's secondary copyright claim against Stability AI
The first major UK ruling on generative AI and copyright leaves training-location questions open but makes it hard to sue over a model itself being made available in Britain.
- Munich court rules ChatGPT's memorised song lyrics infringe copyright (GEMA v OpenAI)
It is the first European judgment treating memorisation inside model weights as copying, raising licensing and output-filtering stakes for any model offered in the EU.
- Rule · ProposedEUDigital Omnibus (data/GDPR)
- Warner Music settles with Suno and agrees licensed AI music models for 2026
Major labels converted the RIAA-backed lawsuits into licensing deals, setting a template where generative music firms pay for training and accept output controls.
- Rule · In forceUSState AI law preemption EO
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- Rule · In forceGBUK Copyright and AI report
- White House sends Congress AI framework calling for preemption of state laws
It is the administration's template for any federal preemption bill and signals which state rules, chiefly model-development laws, are most exposed.
- Rule · ProposedUSWhite House AI legislative framework
- SAG-AFTRA ratifies four-year studio deal restricting synthetic performers
Hollywood's main unions have locked in AI consent and use limits until 2030, as workers in other sectors push for their own AI protections.
- Court gives final approval to Anthropic's $1.5bn settlement with book authors
The largest copyright recovery on record puts a concrete price on training with pirated data, even where training itself may be fair use.
- Delhi High Court refuses ANI's bid to stop OpenAI training on its news
India's first major AI-training ruling leaves model training on news content unrestrained for now while the questions go to trial and appeal.
- Rule · In forceINANI v OpenAI (interim ruling)
- US Justice Department backs OpenAI's fair-use defence in New York Times case
The federal government has formally put its weight behind AI developers on training-data fair use just as the leading US news case reaches summary judgment.
- Third Circuit upholds ruling that ROSS's AI training on Westlaw was not fair use
Appellate authority now holds that copying works to build a directly competing AI product can fail fair use, a precedent plaintiffs will press against generative AI developers.