Brazil’s lower‑house Culture Commission has approved a bill requiring prior authorization for the use of people’s images and copyrighted works by artificial intelligence systems. The proposal, passed on Dec. 19, would tighten consent rules for AI training and synthetic media if it advances through Congress.
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Brazil is moving toward one of the stricter regional approaches to AI and copyright, and this commission vote is another step in that direction. By demanding prior authorization for the use of images and creative works in AI systems, lawmakers are explicitly targeting the data pipelines that power generative models. That doesn’t immediately stop big global labs—many already operate outside Brazil’s jurisdiction—but it complicates life for any domestic model builder or platform that wants to train on Brazilian cultural content at scale.([manchetenacional.com.br](https://manchetenacional.com.br/noticia/20138/comissao-aprova-regras-para-uso-de-imagens-e-obras-autorais-por-inteligencia-artificial?utm_source=openai))
Strategically, this is part of an emerging Latin American pattern: rather than writing broad “AI acts” like the EU, countries are embedding AI constraints into sectoral laws—copyright, consumer protection, and data privacy. For global AI companies, that means a patchwork of local compliance obligations that make it harder to run a single, unified training and deployment stack. For local creatives and rights‑holders, it strengthens bargaining power and could catalyze new licensing markets for AI training data.
From an AGI‑timelines perspective, stricter national rules on training data probably don’t slow the frontier labs with global reach and extensive licensing deals. But they do increase friction for smaller players and open‑source communities, and they raise the legal risk of building models on “found” data. That tends to concentrate cutting‑edge capability in a handful of jurisdictions and firms with the legal and financial capacity to navigate the maze.