The 'COPIED Act' will be submitted to Congress to make it illegal to use works for AI training without permission
Senator Maria Cantwell, Chair of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, and three other bipartisan lawmakers have introduced a bill to Congress called the COPIED Act, which would allow creators to track whether their content has been used to train AI. If this bill goes into effect, it would be illegal to delete provenance information provided by content owners without permission and use it for training generative AI.
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Bipartisan bill aims to protect content from AI use
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4766610-senate-bill-ai-content-protection/
The newly submitted bill to Congress, the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 2024, commonly known as the COPIED Act, would require platforms that provide AI systems and AI services to allow users to add 'provenance information' to works, with a grace period of up to two years after the bill comes into effect.
At the same time, it is prohibited to delete, disable, or alter the provenance information without permission, and it is also prohibited to use content with provenance information to train AI without consent.
This would allow content owners, such as artists and media outlets, as well as state attorneys general, to sue companies that use their content without permission or remove provenance information without permission.
The bill also directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop guidelines and standards for content provenance, watermarking, and synthetic content detection, which would ensure transparency about whether content is generated by AI and the provenance of whose content is used in AI-generated products.
Co-sponsoring the bill with Senator Cantwell were Senator Marsha Blackburn of the Senate Commerce Committee and Senator Martin Heinrich of the Senate AI Working Group.
'The bipartisan COPIED Act will provide needed transparency around AI-generated content. It will also give back control to creators, including journalists, artists and musicians, in the form of provenance information and watermarking, which I think is critical,' said Senator Cantwell.
The bill is sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), Nashville International Songwriters Association, Recording Academy, American Association of Music Publishers, Recording Industry Association of America, News/Media Coalition, Newspaper Association of America, Rebuild Local News, Seattle Times, American Federation of Broadcasters, Artist Rights Alliance, Human Artistry Campaign, Public Citizen, The Society of Composers and Lyricists, American Guild of Composers and Music Creators North America.
In particular, SAG-AFTRA is known for its proactive stance in exploring ethical use of AI while protecting the rights of artists, such as signing contracts with record companies to protect singers and artists from AI, and agreements with AI voice technology companies to allow AI to create actors' voices and use them in games.
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'AI's ability to create digital replicas of performers with astonishing accuracy poses a real and urgent threat to our members' economic and reputational well-being and self-determination,' said SAG-AFTRA Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. 'This bill would make the use of AI technology transparent and provide tools that can trace content back to its origin, empowering victims of misuse of the technology to identify and pursue bad actors. We applaud Senator Cantwell's leadership on this issue and support this bill as part of our approach to preventing the misuse of technology.'
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