AzerbaijanCriminal Code, making or distributing AI-made material that uses a person's image or voice without consent
Criminal Code, Article 148-2, as added by Law No. 387-VIIQD of
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Consent
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
As of .
What it requires
- Do not make photo, video or audio material that uses a person's image or voice, is made with artificial intelligence technologies or special software and does not reflect reality, without that person's consent.
- Do not distribute such material in the media or, where it is shown publicly, on internet information resources or in information-telecommunication networks without that person's consent.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 148-2 makes it an offence to make or distribute AI-made material that uses a person's image or voice without consent. It names no log, record, event recording or audit trail, and requires no one to show or produce on demand anything only a record could show.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Article 148-2 of the Criminal Code makes it an offence to make, without the person's consent, photo, video or audio material that uses that person's image or voice, is made with artificial intelligence technologies or special software and does not reflect reality, or to distribute such material in the media or, where it is shown publicly, on internet information resources or in information-telecommunication networks.
The basic offence is punishable by a fine of 3,000 to 7,000 manat, 360 to 480 hours of community service, restriction of liberty for up to three years or imprisonment for the same period. The same acts committed by a group, against two or more persons, to defame or discredit the person, or against the victim or the victim's close relatives in connection with the victim's official or public duty are punishable by three to five years' imprisonment.
Article 98 of the Constitution provides that a law takes effect on the day it is published unless the law itself states another rule.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates audio with AI, generates images with AI or generates video with AI.