This is a strange possible future: when you were born, you are given a birthplace, social security card and copyright. This possibility appears in Denmark, where officials consider changes to the nation’s copyright laws to give citizens a right to their own similarity as a means of combating AI-generated deep departments, According to the guardian.
The proposal, preceded by the Danish Ministry of Culture and expected for a parliamentary vote in this autumn, would give Danish citizens copyright controls on their own image, facial features and voice. This protection, theoretically, would allow Danes to require online platforms to remove deep departments and other digital manipulations that were shared without their consent. It would also cover “realistic, digitally generated imitations” of an artist’s performance without consent, so no AI-generated versions of your favorite artists’ songs would be allowed.
In addition to granting copyright protections to people, the proposed amendment would set up “severe fines” for any Te Setchnic platform that does not conform to the law and would respond to requests for removal. The person who is impersonated in the Deepfake could also seek compensation.
Such protections, however, could create unintended consequences. For example, could a person use his copyright protection to request the removal of an image they just don’t like? The amendment seems designed to relate only to Deepfakes, which it defines as a “highly realistic digital representation of man”, including their appearance and voice, According to the report. It would also allow parodies and satire, so some of the standard doctrine of fair use is still valid.
“In the bill we agree and send a definite message that everyone has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial aspects, which is apparently not how the current law protects people from generative AI,” Danish Culture Minister, Jakob Engel-Schmidt, said to the guard. “People can work with the digital copy machine and be misused for all kinds of purposes and I’m not ready to accept that.”
Denmark is away from the only nation acting on Deepfakes. Earlier this year the United States has passed the Take it an actA much narrower defined bill that gives people the right to ask for platforms to drop non -shared sexually explicit images of them – though Some activists argued that the law is poorly defined and could be armed by those who act misbehaving.
