From Brussels to Brasília: How the EU AI Act Could Inspire Brazil’s Generative AI Copyright Policy

The EU AI Act is steadily advancing towards final adoption. At the time of writing, a compromise text has been officially published following the Committee of Permanent Representative’s (COREPER) approval on 2 February 2024. The final vote is likely to take place before the end of this legislative period, marking one of the most significant legislative achievements of the current European Commission.Meanwhile, in Brazil, the AI Act – early versions of which date as far back as 2019 – was entirely rewritten by a committee of lawyers and scholars at the behest of the Senate. Latest accounts indicate the senators might vote on it before mid-2024. Final congressional approval and enactment, on the other hand, might well take a few more years. Comparably sweeping legal frameworks to address social disruption by information technologies such as the Civil Rights Framework (2014) and the Fake News Bill (repeatedly taking the spotlight since 2020) have taken a much longer time to pass than originally anticipated even with significant public pressure. Brazil was extremely late to the data protection party with its federal data protection law approved only in 2018.