European Union: European Commission published final version of General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence Code of Practice, including copyright protection regulation

On 10 July 2025, the European Commission published the final version of the General-Purpose Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Code of Practice (Code), including copyright protections. The Code applies to providers of GPAI models placed in the Europe market, including small and medium enterprises and start-ups. The Code sets out voluntary commitments to support compliance with Article 53(1)(c) of the AI Act, which requires providers of general-purpose AI models must to draw up and make publicly available a sufficiently detailed summary about the content used for training of the model, according to a template provided by the AI Office. The Code requires providers of general-purpose AI models to maintain a copyright compliance policy, use only lawfully accessible content for training, respect machine-readable opt-outs, prevent infringing outputs, and establish a complaints mechanism for rightsholders.