EU Commission’s consultation on TDM rights reservation protocols

The European Commission is exploring methods for reserving TDM/AI rights, with a view to making the most mature ones mandatory for AI companies to read and respect under the AI Act’s Code of Practice. A first workshop took place on 2 June, with TDMRep emerging as the protocol with the most support among rightsholders. STM helped expand TDMRep to cover PDF and EPUB formats and recommends it to members as an effective way to reserve rights (full recommendations here). While AI companies have pushed back, the possibility of it being made mandatory increases its relevance.