Dominique de Villepin: Reserving copyright for natural persons and compensating authors for AI training
Proposal put forward by Dominique de Villepin on February 10, 2026. Topic: AI, Culture, Media and Copyright. The observatory also publishes quotes from 8 other public figures on this topic.
We must guarantee that copyright can belong only to a natural person, but also that authors be compensated for content resulting from machine learning on their creations.
Original quote (French)
Il nous faut garantir que les droits d'auteur ne puissent appartenir qu'à une personne physique, mais également que les auteurs soient rémunérés pour le contenu issu d’apprentissage machine sur leurs créations.Source: lafrancehumaniste.fr · archived copy
Other candidates on this topic
- Bruno Retailleau: Favoring AI that speaks the French language rather than importing the culture of other countries
- David Lisnard: Asked about the Thélyson Orélien affair, Lisnard sees AI as a writing tool and laziness of thought as the main danger
- Emmanuel Maurel: Making AI companies contribute to cultural creation (rights on works)
- Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Regulate cultural generative AI and compensate creators whose work is used
- Marine Tondelier: Give the polling commission access to weighting algorithms and the right to publish them
- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan: Promoting AI products based on the French language
- Olivier Becht: Require platforms to pay for content by strengthening copyright, including in the face of AI
- Raphaël Glucksmann: Protecting Copyright in the Face of Generative AI Platforms
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