Posts tagged with: deepfakes

Last year, Denmark introduced amendments to its Copyright Act granting copyright-like protection to individuals’ personal characteristics and digital imitations of performances. As we argued during the public consultation, while the objective of this initiative—to protect individuals and performing artists against AI-generated deepfakes—is commendable, copyright is not the appropriate legal framework to address these concerns. In […]

In June 2025, the Danish government together with a number of opposition parties jointly proposed the establishment of a safeguard against the sharing of digital imitations by amending the Copyright Act by introducing two protections: 1) A general protection against realistic digitally generated imitations of personal characteristics; and (2) An imitation protection for performing artists. […]