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(Original Signature of Member)

118TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION

H. R. ll

To require a notice be submitted to the Register of Copyrights with respect
to copyrighted works used in building generative AI systems, and forother purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Mr. SCHIFF introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
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A BILLTo require a notice be submitted to the Register of Copyrights with respect to copyrighted works used in buildinggenerative AI systems, and for other purposes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-

2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Generative AI Copy-

5 right Disclosure Act of 2024’’.

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21SEC. 2. NOTICE TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE REGISTER OF

2COPYRIGHTS WITH RESPECT COPYRIGHTED3WORKS USED IN BUILDING GENERATIVE AI

4SYSTEMS.

5(a) NOTICE.—

6(1) REQUIREMENT.—A person who creates a

7training dataset, or alters a training dataset (includ-8ing by making an update to, refining, or retraining

9the dataset) in a significant manner, that is used in10building a generative AI system shall submit to the11Register a notice that contains—

12(A) a sufficiently detailed summary of any

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copyrighted works used—

14(i) in the training dataset (in the case15that the person creates the dataset); or

16(ii) to alter the training dataset (in17the case that the person alters the training

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data in a significant manner); and19(B) the URL for such dataset (in the case20of a training dataset that is publicly available

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on the internet at the time the notice is sub-22mitted).

23(2) TIME FOR FILING NOTICE.—The notice re-24

quired by paragraph (1) shall be submitted—

25(A) not later than 30 days before the gen-26erative AI system with respect to which theg:\VHLD\010824\D010824.011.xml
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training dataset is used is made available to2

consumers, in the case that the generative AI

3system is first made available to consumers

4after the date on which this Act takes effect;

5and6(B) not later than 30 days after the date

7on which this Act takes effect, in the case that8

the generative AI system with respect to which

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the training dataset was used was made avail-10

able to consumers before the effective date of

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this Act.

12(b) CIVIL PENALTY.—

13(1) ASSESSMENT.—Any person described under

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paragraph (1) of subsection (a) that fails to comply

15with a requirement under such subsection shall be16

assessed a civil penalty in an amount not less than

17$5,000.

18(2) REGULATIONS.— Not later than 180 days

19after the date on which this Act takes effect, the20

Register shall issue regulations to implement the re-21

quirement under paragraph (1).

22(c) DATABASE.—The Register shall establish and23 maintain a publicly available online database that contains
24 each notice filed under subsection (a)(1).
25(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:

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41(1)term

2‘‘Artificial Intelligence’’ means an automated system3

designed to perform a task typically associated with4

human intelligence or cognitive function.

5(2) COPYRIGHTED

WORK.—Theterm ‘‘copy-

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righted work’’ means a work protected in the United

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States under a law relating to copyrights.

8(3) GENERATIVE AI MODEL.—The term ‘‘gen-

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erative AI model’’ means a combination of computer

10code and numerical values designed to use Artificial

11Intelligence to generate outputs in the form of ex-

12pressive material such as text, images, audio, or

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video.

14(4) GENERATIVE AI SYSTEM.—The term ‘‘gen-

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erative AI system’’ means a software product or

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service that—

17(A) substantially incorporates one or more

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generative AI models; and19(B) is designed for use by consumers.

20(5) REGISTER.—The term ‘‘Register’’ means

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the Register of Copyrights.

22(6) TRAINING DATASET.—The term ‘‘training

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dataset’’ means a collection of individual units of24material (including a combination of text, images,

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audio, or other categories of expressive material, asg:\VHLD\010824\D010824.011.xml
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INTELLIGENCE.—TheARTIFICIAL

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well as annotations describing the material) used to2

train a generative AI model.

3(e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act shall take effect on

4 the date that is 180 days after the date of the enactment
5 of this Act.

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