Bill > S1396

This bill (the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 2025) aims to address the growing challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI) in creating and modifying digital content by establishing a comprehensive framework for transparency and protection. The bill requires the Under Secretary of Commerce to create a public-private partnership to develop standards for content provenance information (a record of a digital content's origin and history) and for detecting synthetic or synthetically-modified content, including establishing guidelines for watermarking and evaluating detection tools. Starting two years after enactment, companies creating tools for generating synthetic content or modifying existing content must provide users the ability to include machine-readable content provenance information and implement security measures to prevent its removal. The bill makes it unlawful to knowingly remove or tamper with content provenance information, and prohibits using copyrighted content to train AI systems without the copyright owner's express consent. Enforcement mechanisms include actions by the Federal Trade Commission, state attorneys general, and private parties, with potential penalties including injunctions, damages, and legal fees. The bill also mandates research into content detection technologies and a public education campaign about synthetic media, while explicitly preserving existing copyright protections and ensuring that if any part of the act is found invalid, the rest remains in effect.

Transportation and Infrastructure

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1396/all-info