AI Training: Copyright Disclosure Rules
A senate committee must act next: committee consideration.
The bill has strong bipartisan support from both very liberal and very conservative senators. However, major tech companies will likely fight these transparency requirements in committee.
Scores run from -100 (strongly harmful) to +100 (strongly beneficial) for each group, combining impact, certainty, scope, and duration ratings of 1-5. How impact scoring works
Small publishers, independent studios, and individual creators who run their work as a business gain a legal tool to investigate unauthorized use of their copyrighted material in AI training. At the same time, smaller AI startups that qualify as 'developers' under the bill face new legal exposure, including expedited disclosure duties and a rebuttable presumption of copying if they fail to comply with a subpoena.
“a developer shall expeditiously disclose to the legal or beneficial owner or authorized person the copies or records requested by the subpoena”
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Sent to a congressional committee for expert review. The committee decides whether this bill moves forward.
Introduced in Senate
The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.
A bipartisan group of senators introduced the TRAIN Act to create a legal mechanism for creators to determine if their work was used to train AI models. The bill establishes an administrative subpoena process to address the 'black box' of AI training data.
The TRAIN Act has been reintroduced in Congress, aiming to provide authors and other creators with a direct pathway to determine if their works were used to train AI models. The bill is supported by a wide range of creative industry organizations.
No votes recorded for this bill yet.
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
TRAIN Act
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