Generates images with AI, in Iceland

Höfundalög nr. 73/1972 (Copyright Act), 1., 2., 54. og 56. gr. · Read the law's page

• Get the author's permission before you copy a work, in whole or in part, or make it available to the public, in its original or altered form, in translation or other adaptation, subject to the limits the Act sets elsewhere (art. 2).
• Treat any direct or indirect, temporary or permanent making of a copy of a work, in whole or in part, by any method and in any form, as copying (art. 2).
• Treat offering copies for sale, rent or loan, otherwise distributing them to the public, showing copies publicly, or performing the work publicly, including making it available so that anyone can reach it from a place and at a time of their choosing, as making the work available to the public (art. 2).
• Treat a computer program as protected in the same way as a literary work (art. 1).
• Expect imprisonment of up to two years for intentional or grossly negligent acts contrary to the author's exclusive right (art. 54).
• Expect to pay damages if you breach the Act intentionally or negligently (art. 56).

Lög um vörumerki nr. 45/1997 (Trade Marks Act), 13., 14. og 40. gr. · Read the law's page

• Do not expect to register as a trade mark a name, logo or other mark that is liable to mislead people, for example about the nature, condition or geographical origin of goods or services (art. 13, item 7).
• Do not expect to register a mark that without authorisation contains a coat of arms or other state emblem, a flag, the emblem of an Icelandic municipality, an official inspection or quality mark, or anything liable to be mistaken for them (art. 13, item 8).
• Get the consent of the right holder concerned before registering a mark that gives reason to believe it refers to the name of an active business, another person's name or image (other than a long-dead person's), or a distinctive property name or a picture of the property (art. 14, item 4).
• Expect a court to be able to prohibit use of a trade mark that is misleading, in the form in which it is used (art. 40).

Almenn hegningarlög nr. 19/1940 (General Penal Code), 210. gr. a, 5. mgr., eins og henni var breytt með lögum nr. 29/2022 · Read the law's page

• Do not produce, import, acquire, distribute, or possess image material depicting a person 18 years of age or older acting sexually while playing the role of a child, or a non-real depiction of a child in such material, such as a cartoon, an illustration, or another simulated or AI-generated image, under Almenn hegningarlög Article 210.a.
• This duty binds a synthetic or AI-generated depiction on the same terms as any other image; the fact that no real child appears in it is not a defense.

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence; marked EEA-relevant; under scrutiny for incorporation into the EEA Agreement by the EEA Joint Committee (EFTA EEA-Lex factsheet 32024R1689); not yet in force in Iceland