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Brazil's Senate passed PL 2338/2023 in December 2024 with a copyright chapter that lets rightsholders forbid AI training on their work and requires AI developers to pay for what they use. The Chamber of Deputies' special committee has held no meetings in 2026, and the rapporteur now expects a vote only after the October elections.
Artist rightsvia Câmara dos Deputados
UK Music's This Is Music 2025 report asked music creators what they think about AI. Big majorities want consent, payment, labelling and voice rights. The producers, the group most likely to use AI tools and most positive about them, back consent and payment almost as strongly as everyone else, so using AI and opposing unlicensed training are not in conflict.
AIvia UK Music
Mexico changed its Federal Copyright Law and Federal Labor Law in May 2026. A performer's voice and image are now protected against AI clones, a payment for one use no longer counts as consent to others, and work contracts must set the terms and pay for any AI use. This is already law, not a bill, but the exceptions are worded more loosely than the headlines suggest.
Artist rightsvia Diario Oficial de la Federación
Denmark's culture minister tabled bill L 49 on 8 Oct 2026. It would bar sharing realistic digital imitations of a person's voice, face or other features, or of a performer's performance, without consent, from 1 Jan 2027. It is not law yet. The detail that matters most for singers is in the explanatory notes: the person who publishes the imitation has to prove consent.
Artist rightsvia Folketingstidende (Danish Parliament)
Read together, the Katy Perry, Ed Sheeran and Mariah Carey cases draw a clear line in US law: a melody and an original selection and arrangement of elements can be owned, while scales, common chord progressions, rhythms and genre clichés can't. Style isn't copyrightable either. For producers working with reference tracks and AI, that makes the singer's voice a bigger risk than the vibe.
Artist rightsvia US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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