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Hong Kong delays AI copyright law to focus on guidelines first

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SignalsMonitor is following this as a technology story. South China Morning Post Asia is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 27 Sept 2026, 08:00 UTC. The headline in use is “Hong Kong delays AI copyright law to focus on guidelines first”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
What we know
Hong Kong authorities will delay a proposed legal amendment to protect copyrighted works from being used to train artificial intelligence (AI) models and will issue operational guidelines first, the South China Morning Post has learned. The Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2025, which aimed to introduce an “opt-out” mechanism for text and…
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Hong Kong delays AI copyright law to focus on guidelines first
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