Russia: Ministry of Digital Development opened consultation on draft Law on Fundamentals of State Regulation of the Fields of Application of Artificial Intelligence Technologies including copyright protection regulation

On 18 March 2026, the Ministry of Digital Development opened a public consultation on the draft Law on Fundamentals of State Regulation of the Fields of Application of Artificial Intelligence Technologies until 15 April 2026. The draft provides that intellectual property objects created through the application of artificial intelligence services would be protected under the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. Artificial intelligence service owners would be required to notify users of rules and restrictions on the use of results of intellectual activity obtained with the aid of artificial intelligence services and to ensure that contracts with users specify who holds rights to synthesised, generated information material. The draft provides that the extraction of information from objects protected by copyright or patent rights for the purpose of producing a dataset or training artificial intelligence would not constitute an infringement of copyright or patent rights, provided that a lawfully acquired copy has been obtained or that the object is publicly available. Artificial intelligence model developers would be required to guarantee the absence of infringement of the intellectual property rights of third parties.