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What changed between the plenary report and the adopted text
From · plenary report· 25 Feb 2026
on copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges
To · adopted text· 10 Mar 2026
Copyright and generative artificial intelligence – opportunities and challenges
AI:What changed, in short
The versions differ only in formal points: decimal separator and punctuation are updated.12
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Changes to the text itself, in document order. Cover page, citations and punctuation-only edits are left out; they are under “Every difference”.
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None: the changes are formal or of wording only.
2 formal changes: legal basis, citations, references, corrections
Change 1 Formal
AI summary:Replaces the decimal separator in the percentage from a period to a comma, aligning with European formatting conventions.
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Changed:C. whereas the creative and cultural sector plays a key role in safeguarding European values and cultural diversity, representing approximately 4 % of EU value added and 6.96,9 % of the EU’s gross domestic product; whereas the sector employs around 8 million people, underpinning Europe’s cultural diversity, social cohesion, values and democratic dialogue;
Change 2 Formal
AI summary:Changes the punctuation at the end of the paragraph from a period to a semicolon, likely to connect with the following text.
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Changed:18. Notes the use of GenAI systems that rely massively on protected content, reproducing it without authorisation from, or compensation for, the rights holders affected by such use, particularly when integrated into search engines or other digital services that enable the generation, often in real time and at marginal cost, of content that infringes upon original works and other protected subject matter on which the models were trained, or that was scraped, including in real time, by such models; is alarmed that these practices may result in the provision of products and services that directly and unfairly compete with those of the rights holders, including through illegal self-preferencing of gatekeepers.gatekeepers;