CLEAR Act
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
Introduced
Summary
This bill would require anyone who uses copyrighted material to train or release a generative AI model to file a detailed notice with the Register of Copyrights. It would also create a public, searchable database of those notices and give copyright owners legal remedies when notices are missing.
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- Developers and companies would have to provide a detailed summary of each copyrighted work in a training dataset and include the dataset URL if it was publicly available. They would generally need to submit the notice at least 30 days before commercial use or release of the model, or within 30 days after regulations are issued for models first used earlier.
- Copyright holders would gain a private right of action in federal court if a required notice is not submitted. Courts could impose civil penalties starting at $5,000 per failure, award attorney's fees, and issue injunctions to stop use until notice is filed. Total civil penalties are capped at $2.5 million per year.
- The Register of Copyrights would have 180 days after the law takes effect to write rules on the form, content, and filing procedures. The Register must maintain a publicly accessible online database of submitted notices, and penalties collected would be paid to the Register to help offset Copyright Office operating costs.
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New reporting rules for AI developers
This bill would require anyone who uses training data to train or release a generative AI model to file a notice with the Register of Copyrights. The notice would have to summarize each copyrighted work in the training dataset and include the dataset URL if it is publicly available. For models first used or released on or after the law's effective date, the notice would be filed at least 30 days before commercial use or release. The Register would have 180 days after the law's effective date to issue rules and would keep a public online database of all notices. Copyright owners could sue if a required notice is missing, and courts could order injunctions, award attorney fees, and impose civil penalties of at least $5,000 per missing notice, subject to a $2,500,000 cap per year; penalties would go to the Register to offset Copyright Office costs.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA]
CA • D
Cosponsors
John Curtis
UT • R
Sponsored 2/10/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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