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Indonesia drafts AI-era copyright bill tying payouts to human involvement
The proposal would require AI use disclosures and bar copying a person’s distinctive style, while directing royalties to state-supervised collective management organizations.
Indonesia is moving to rewrite its copyright law for the age of artificial intelligence, opening a new front in a dispute between news publishers seeking compensation and technology companies warning that broad rules could go too far, according to coverage by SCMP Economy.
A draft bill completed by Indonesia’s House of Representatives would amend the 2014 copyright law by limiting copyright protection for AI-assisted works to cases that meet unspecified human involvement criteria, while also prohibiting use of AI to copy an individual’s distinctive style and requiring disclosure of AI use in content.
The draft would also require tech platforms to pay compensation for aggregating, republishing, or link-previewing news content, and for using it in AI training. SCMP Economy reports that lawmakers are continuing deliberations even as the parliamentary recess runs until August 13.
Royalties paid by digital companies would be routed through state-supervised collective management organizations, which would distribute proceeds to news publishers, with the bill expected to shape who gets paid as AI systems draw on copyrighted content.