ABSTRACT
This article addresses two principal research objectives: first, to examine how and to what extent the provisions of the EU AI Act (EUAIA) dedicated to general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) models (GPAIm) govern the intersection of copyright and AI, through the scrutiny of major legal challenges raised by AI manipulations of copyrighted material, and, second, to distil whether and how the EUAIA’s provisions on prohibited AI practices can be applicable to AI-based copyright infringement. The author posits that the provision of Article 5(1)(a) EUAIA, which does not explicitly refer to copyright, can be interpreted in a sense that it allows us to qualify the use of copyrighted material for creating manipulated content as a ‘purposefully manipulative or deceptive technique’, but only once the other criteria of Article 5(1)(a) – not related to copyright law – are fulfilled …
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Uroš Ćemalović, Letting sleeping wasps lie: general-purpose AI models and copyright protection under the European Union AI Act, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice. Published: 30 December 2025.
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