DenmarkBill L 49 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 (Beskyttelse af personlige kendetegn m.v. og ændret proces for prøvelse ved… Ophavsretslicensnævnet), 2026/1 LF 49 (L 49), ny § 73 a
Introduced in the first chamber, dated , as of .
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Consent
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- General
Where it has got to
The text described here is Lovforslag som fremsat. That print is 2026/1 LF 49, published .
Locally, this stage is Fremsat (lovforslag som fremsat).
The stage above is recorded at www.retsinformation.dk.
The Minister for Culture introduced the bill in the Folketing on and its print was published on Retsinformation on . It follows the consultation draft of (Høringsportalen case 70269), which planned entry into force on and described the exception as covering imitations that are mainly caricature, satire, parody, pastiche, criticism of power or social criticism; the introduced text drops 'mainly' and 'pastiche' and fixes .
What it requires
- 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 an expression of caricature, satire, parody, criticism of power, social criticism or similar, 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.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
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Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Does 'virkelighedsnære' in proposed section 73a mean the imitation must be lifelike enough to be mistaken for the real person, or does it also reach a recognizable stylized likeness?
- What do the references in proposed section 73a(4) to sections 23(2) and 25 of the Copyright Act allow for a generated imitation made available without consent?
What it makes you log
What the log must hold
Consent or opt-out state
Logging duty
Proposed section 73a(1) bars making a realistic digitally generated imitation of a natural person's physical characteristics available to the public without that person's consent. The remarks to the bill say the party who makes the imitation available must prove that the imitated person consented. The bill text states no duty to keep a log or record; a party that bears the burden of proving consent cannot meet it without a record of the consent, so the duty is implicit.
- Kind
- Implicit
- As of
- Provision
- Proposed ophavsretsloven § 73 a, stk. 1, with the bill's remarks
- Trigger
- content_generation
What this law does
The 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 an expression of caricature, satire, parody, criticism of power, social criticism or similar, 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 Minister for Culture introduced the bill in the Folketing on . The bill would enter into force on . An earlier consultation draft, published on , had planned entry into force on .
When LexLint raises it
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