Decisions · Policy · European Union
The Development of Generative AI from a Copyright Perspective
EUIPO (with the European Commission) · 2025-05 · Proposal · non-binding
EUIPO study, May 2025
Can AI be trained on protected works?
No position
No common standard yet for opting out of AI training or labelling AI content
Why hereNot placed: a mapping study. It finds there is no common standard for opting out or labelling, but does not recommend an answer to the training question.
What it says
The EUIPO study maps how generative AI uses protected works and finds there is no common standard for expressing a reservation of rights under the text and data mining exception, or for disclosing synthetic content.
The opt-out exists in EU law, but there is no agreed way to do it yet. Use machine-readable methods.
Sources
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Data as of 2026-10-21.
Drafted with AI assistance and checked against the sources linked above; not yet reviewed by a lawyer. Methodology
Changes
- 2026-10-20Reclassified as descriptive work: no longer coded as a position (was in the middle) or counted as backing the proposal to fix the opt-out.