Denmark’s proposed amendment to the Copyright Act would extend copyright-style protection to a person’s face, body, and voice, treating digital reproductions of personal characteristics as a form of intellectual property. The proposal is the most conceptually ambitious approach internationally, framing identity protection as copyright rather than tort, criminal, or transparency law.

• Realistic digitally-generated imitations of a person’s image, voice, and physical characteristics
• All natural persons in Denmark, including foreign nationals whose likeness is misused within Danish jurisdiction
• Performers, with separate enhanced protection for performance imitations

• Consent required from the depicted individual for any digital replica made available to the public
• Civil remedies modeled on copyright infringement: takedown notices, damages, infringement proceedings
• Carve-outs for caricature, satire, parody, criticism — unless the imitation constitutes harmful misinformation
• Enforcement governed by the EU Digital Services Act framework; protection lasts 50 years after the death of the depicted person