Dominique de Villepin: Per-Item Tax on AI-Generated Cultural Content, With Mandatory Label, to Benefit Creation
Proposal put forward by Dominique de Villepin on July 23, 2026. Topic: AI, Culture, Media and Copyright. The observatory also publishes quotes from 8 other public figures on this topic.
Per-item taxation of content generated by artificial intelligence with a cultural purpose and marketed commercially, conditional on a mandatory identification label, collected from distributors on the private copying model, designed at the European scale, must make it possible to fund a national fund for financing human creation.
Original quote (French)
La taxation à l’acte des contenus générés par intelligence artificielle à vocation culturelle et commercialisés, conditionnée à un label obligatoire d’identification, perçue chez les diffuseurs sur le modèle de la copie privée, pensée à l’échelle européenne, doit permettre d’abonder un fonds national de financement de la création humaine.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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