United States of America: Introduced Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED ACT) including copyright protection regulation

On 11 July 2024, the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act (COPIED ACT) was introduced in the US Senate. The Act proposes federal transparency guidelines for labelling, authenticating, and detecting Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated content. It aims to establish safeguards for journalists, actors, and artists from the use of their work for artificial intelligence development purposes without consent and establish accountability measures for misconduct. Specifically, the Act includes several user rights, such as enabling content owners to attach provenance information to their content and prohibiting the removal of this information. Additionally, the Act would grant newspapers, broadcasters, artists, and other content owners the authority to pursue legal action against platforms or other parties that use their content without authorisation.