Indonesia Proposes Sweeping AI Regulations

Indonesia is proposing landmark copyright reforms that could make it the first country in Southeast Asia to explicitly regulate AI under copyright law, as reported by Reuters.

The draft legislation:

• AI would be banned from imitating a creator’s “distinctive style.”

• Creators would be required to disclose when using AI to produce content.

• AI-assisted works would qualify for copyright protection only if they met a human-involvement requirement, while fully machine-generated works would not qualify.

• The use of copyrighted works for AI training would be subject to fair-use limits or licensing agreements.

• Tech platforms would be required to compensate rightsholders for using content in AI training, aggregation, and related uses.

• Local business permits would be revoked for non-compliant platforms.

Music industry ramifications:

• For the music industry, the proposed ban on style imitation could have implications for AI voice and artist-style cloning.

Timeline:

• The legislation would overhaul Indonesia’s 2014 copyright law.

• A timeline for passage has not been set.

Objections:

• As per Music Business Worldwide, Google is a vocal critic of the proposed regulations.

• It previously stated: “Rigid, overbroad mandates...would harm local creators, slow innovation, and leave Indonesia as an international outlier, ultimately discouraging the investment needed to drive its digital future.”