EU AI Act Article 53(1)(c)(d) - Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models: copyright policy and training data summary
Maintain the Article 53(1)(c) copyright policy and publish the separate Article 53(1)(d) training-content summary; open-source status does not exempt either duty
Where this comes from
Provision: Article 53(1)(c)(d) - Obligations for providers of general-purpose AI models: copyright policy and training data summary
Instrument: EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689)
Citation: Article 53(1)(c)(d), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689; Article 4(3), Directive (EU) 2019/790
Text version: Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, consolidated 27 July 2026; original OJ L 12 July 2024 and amendment (EU) 2026/1744
Checked against the source: 6 September 2026
Who it applies to
GPAI model provider in scope (Art. 2, Art. 3(63)) — all of these:
- Project involves providing a general-purpose AI model (GPAI)
- GPAI assessed Union model scope: YES
What engineering work it implies
- Training Data Governance Record (Datasheet + Bias Assessment)Foundation only
A per-dataset data card covering the Article 10(2) governance practices, plus a bias-assessment checklist and a pipeline gate that blocks a training run when the card...
Sample acceptance criteria Landfall generates for this obligation:
- Document the Union copyright/related-rights policy and identification and respect of Article 4(3) rights reservations
- Publish a sufficiently detailed training-content summary using the applicable AI Office template, with version and publication evidence
- Preserve both Article 53(1)(c) and (d) duties when the Article 53(2) documentation exception applies
- Record the model-provider scope, relevant model version and Article 111(3) placement-date transition before an enforcement conclusion
- A documentation exemption never automatically suppresses the copyright policy or public summary
Evidence an auditor expects
- Policy documentDocument review
Copyright compliance policy identifying and respecting Art. 4(3) rights reservations
Written policy covering how Union copyright and related rights are complied with, and specifically how a reservation of rights expressed under Art. 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 is identified and honoured — including the machine-readable signals honoured at crawl time and the operational evidence that they are
- Process recordDocument reviewReviewed on each significant change to the training corpus
Published training-content summary on the AI Office template (Art. 53(1)(d))
The published, sufficiently detailed summary of the content used for training, produced on the template provided by the AI Office, with the publication date and location. The template is the controlling instrument for the required level of detail — do not substitute a self-designed format
Questions people ask
- Does EU AI Act Article 53(1)(c)(d) - Obligations for providers of general-purpose… apply to my service?
- It applies when Project involves providing a general-purpose AI model (GPAI); GPAI assessed Union model scope: YES.
- When does this become enforceable?
- EU AI Act Article 53(1)(c)(d) - Obligations for providers of general-purpose… is enforceable from 2 August 2025. Its current status is: in force.
- What evidence does an auditor expect?
- Copyright compliance policy identifying and respecting Art. 4(3) rights reservations; Published training-content summary on the AI Office template (Art. 53(1)(d)).
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