The European Commission has launched a stakeholder consultation and call for expression of interest to support the implementation of Measure 1.3 of the General-Purpose AI (GPAI) Code of Practice, focusing on how providers of general-purpose AI models must identify and comply with copyright opt-outs for text and data mining (TDM). This obligation, rooted in Article 53(1)(c) of the AI Act and Article 4(3) of the DSM Copyright Directive, requires AI providers to respect rights reservations expressed by rightsholders through appropriate, machine-readable means when scraping or compiling data from the web.
The consultation aims to gather evidence on existing technical solutions for expressing TDM opt-outs beyond robots.txt, building on findings from the 2025 EUIPO study on generative AI and copyright. The results will inform the development of a first EU-level list of generally agreed, technically implementable opt-out protocols, which will then be discussed further in dedicated stakeholder workshops. Rightsholders, GPAI providers, and other relevant stakeholders are encouraged to participate, contributing to an inclusive process that supports transparency, legal certainty, and effective compliance with EU copyright law in the context of AI training.
You can view and download the CEPIC contribution attached at the top of this article.