Procedure

Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges

2025/2058(INI)·10th term·JURI·INI

Summary

Own-initiative report on copyright and generative artificial intelligence. The amendments add citations to the Charter, the Berne and Rome Conventions and the General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, and revise recitals on intellectual property as a fundamental right, the exclusive and moral rights of authors, performers and producers, Europe's technological sovereignty and competitiveness in AI, the cultural and creative sectors, and applying EU rules to non-EU generative AI services.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
16 Sep 2025
Plenary vote — Adopted
10 Mar 2026 · On the motion for a resolution · the text as a whole

370

Amendments

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tabled at least one

Committee

16 Sep 2025

Dates

Plenary votes

3 roll-call votes

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10 Mar 2026Rejected
On amendment 2 · paragraph 3
Official label: § 3 - Am 2 · what was voted ↗
159 for426 against26 abstentions107 did not vote
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10 Mar 2026Rejected
On amendment 1 · text to be inserted after recital H
Official label: Après le considérant H - Am 1 · what was voted ↗
174 for410 against18 abstentions116 did not vote
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10 Mar 2026Main voteAdopted
On the motion for a resolution · the text as a whole
Official label: Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte) · what was voted ↗
460 for71 against88 abstentions99 did not vote
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only

Plenary amendments2 tabled on this text

Amendments tabled for the plenary sitting on this text, in their own numbering series. This is a different set from the committee amendments tracked elsewhere on AmendEU, and is not counted in any of the site’s amendment totals.

Amendment 1Motion for a resolution · Recital H a (new)
Amendment
Ha. whereas artistic creations protected by copyright can effectively be copied and used illegally by these new technologies; whereas these difficulties should be addressed while ensuring the competitiveness of European companies in the AI sector; whereas the measures to be put in place should not hinder the economic development of this sector;
official amendment document ↗
Amendment 2Motion for a resolution · Paragraph 3
Current text
3. Recalls that any exceptions to current rights under the copyright acquis, including on AI, must be in line with the three-step test under Article 5(5) of the InfoSoc Directive and under the Berne Convention; notes that the concept of ‘lawful access’ excludes pirated and infringing copies of works;
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3. Recalls that any exceptions to current rights under the copyright acquis, including on AI, must be in line with the three-step test under Article 5(5) of the InfoSoc Directive and under the Berne Convention; notes that the concept of ‘lawful access’ excludes pirated and infringing copies of works; recalls that, in the EU, the cultural sector represents nearly 4 % of GDP and that nearly eight million people are employed in this sector, which comprises more than one million businesses that may be affected, to varying degrees, by the use of creative works without compensation by generative AI;
official amendment document ↗