DenmarkDraft bill amending the Copyright Act, protection against realistic digitally generated imitations of a natural person's face, voice and body (proposed section 73a)
Forslag til lov om ændring af lov om ophavsret (Indførelse af en præstationsbeskyttelse og beskyttelse mod digitalt genererede… efterligninger mv.), ny § 73 a
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A published draft that has not reached a legislature, dated 7 July 2025, as of 23 September 2026.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 23 September 2026.
Where it has got to
The text described here is Udkast til lovforslag (høringsversion). That print is Høring 70269, published 7 July 2025.
Locally, this stage is Høringsudkast (draft bill sent for public consultation).
The stage above is recorded at hoeringsportalen.dk.
The consultation deadline was 2025-08-21 and the portal recorded an archiving date of 2025-10-21. The government's own legislative program, published 2025-10-07, placed the bill's formal treatment in early 2026.
A trade-press account citing the Ministry of Culture reported in February 2026 that legislative treatment was expected to begin in the first half of March 2026, with a revised planned entry into force of 2026-07-01, but a national election shortly afterward paused the government's AI and copyright legislative business. No formal introduction to the Folketing (an L-number reading) or a later step is confirmed at a primary source; ft.dk serves a bot challenge on every route tried here.
What it requires
- This measure is proposed and binds nobody yet; what follows is what it would require if enacted in this form.
- Do not make a realistic digitally generated imitation of a natural person's face, voice, or other physical characteristics available to the public without that person's consent.
- An exception applies to an imitation that is mainly caricature, satire, parody, pastiche, criticism of power, or social criticism, unless the imitation is misinformation that could specifically cause serious danger to another person's rights or material interests.
- If you make such an imitation available to the public, you bear the burden of proving the imitated person's consent.
What this law does
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The draft bill would add a new section 73a to the Danish Copyright Act (ophavsretsloven) barring a realistic digitally generated imitation of a natural person's personal, physical characteristics from being made available to the public without that person's consent.
An exception applies to an imitation that is mainly caricature, satire, parody, pastiche, criticism of power, or social criticism, unless the imitation is misinformation that could specifically cause serious danger to another person's rights or material interests. The protection would run until 50 years after the imitated person's year of death. The party who makes the imitation available to the public would bear the burden of proving the imitated person's consent.
The Ministry of Culture published the draft for public consultation on 7 July 2025 with a planned entry into force of 31 March 2026.
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