EU Rolls Out AI Code With Broad Copyright, Transparency Rules

The European Union published a code of practice to help companies follow its landmark AI Act that includes copyright protections for creators and transparency requirements for advanced models.

The code will require developers to provide up-to-date documentation describing their AI’s features to regulators and third parties looking to integrate it in their own products, the European Commission said Thursday.

Companies also will be banned from training AI on pirated materials and must respect requests from writers and artists to keep copyrighted work out of datasets. If AI produces material that infringes copyright rules, the code of practice will require companies ...