European Union: European Commission closes consultation on third draft of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Code of Practice including copyright regulations

On 30 March 2025, the European Commission closes its consultation on the third draft of the General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (AI) Code of Practice. The third draft, developed in collaboration with industry, academia and civil society, would improve on previous versions by streamlining the structure, clarifying provisions and strengthening commitments. The Code would introduce two commitments for all providers of general purpose AI (GPAI) and 16 additional commitments for providers of general purpose AI models with systemic risk (GPAISR). The draft would refine previous commitments to ensure compliance with Article 53(1)(c) of the EU AI Act and EU copyright law. It would emphasise that AI providers must establish a copyright policy, assign internal responsibilities and promote public summaries. The draft would also require providers to extract content legally, respecting rights reservations and avoiding piracy domains. Where content is sourced from third parties, providers would have to verify that it has been collected legally. Measures would be included to prevent AI models from memorising and reproducing copyrighted content, with user agreements prohibiting infringement, except for open source models. In addition, the code would provide a complaint mechanism for rights holders to report non-compliance.