ItalyCodice Penale Art. 612-quater, Illicit Dissemination of AI-Generated or AI-Altered Content
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In force 11 months, effective 10 October 2025.
An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not transfer, publish, or otherwise disseminate a falsified or altered image, video, or voice recording generated using an AI system, capable of misleading others as to its genuineness, without the depicted or recorded person's consent.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Private right of actionNo
Criminal exposure note
Imprisonment from one to five years for causing unjust harm to a person by non-consensually disseminating an AI-generated or AI-altered image, video, or voice recording capable of misleading as to its genuineness. Prosecutable only on the victim's complaint, except ex officio where connected to another ex-officio offence, or committed against a person incapable by age or infirmity, or against a public authority because of its functions.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 612-quater is a criminal prohibition on non-consensually disseminating an AI-generated or AI-altered image, video or voice recording capable of misleading as to its genuineness. It states no duty to create, keep or produce a log or record of any kind.
- Kind
- None
- As of
- 22 September 2026
Who checks it
Audit expectation
none
What this law does
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Whoever causes unjust harm to a person by transferring, publishing, or otherwise disseminating, without that person's consent, an image, video, or voice recording falsified or altered through the use of an AI system and suited to deceive as to its genuineness, is punished with imprisonment from one to five years.
The offence is prosecutable only on the injured person's complaint, except that it is prosecuted ex officio if connected to another offence for which ex officio prosecution is required, or if committed against a person incapable by age or infirmity, or against a public authority because of its functions.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
official consolidated text of Legge 132/2025, Normattiva
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