In recent months have been very eventful in the legal world and artificial intelligences, in particular with Disney who recently decided to attack Midjourney For copyright violation, in addition to several dozen other procedures.
And if we would have thought that the match was already over, especially with A judge who agreed to Anthropic Faced with writers last month, it is a new thunderclap that could soon fall on artificial intelligences …
Pirated databases to train AI & NBSP?
In a Report published by the Senate This Wednesday, July 9, several senators returned to the links around artificial intelligence and artistic creation.
According to them, some models of AI have notably trained on works that have not been recovered ethically, with certain techniques such as the web-scraping strongly criticized, When the data does not come from a hacking As was the case for Anthropic recently.
And faced with the increase in data processing on the part of artificial intelligence tools, and the extent that these advances take, the senators who led this report estimate A shortfall for rights holders as was mentioned several times with Chatgpt and studio Ghibli.
A legislative framework unsuitable for artificial intelligence
According to the group of senators, it is essential to create a legislative framework around data recovery by artificial intelligences.
Although the European directive of April 17, 2019 was written at the time to protect the authors, in particular with copyright and neighboring rights, senators believe that this directive no longer allows artists to protect artificial intelligences today.
Towards an upcoming tax for 2026 & nbsp?
Faced with this observation, senators believe that artistic creation is more than threatened by artificial intelligences, but does not wish to prevent these new technologies from progressing.
And if other solutions are offered as Cloudflare and the “Pay per crawl“, This can only apply to the web frame and not to artistic works that are not accessible online.
Senators offer a tax that could apply to income generated by publishers and artificial intelligence tools, with the aim of funding support for professionals, but also to continue to promote artistic creation.
Following the publication of this report, the Higher Council for Literary and Artistic property ordered a lawyer, Alexandra Bensamoun to draw conclusions for the summer of 2026, without giving more details.
