President José Antonio Kast's Reconstruction National bill, submitted to Congress this Wednesday, includes in article 8 an identical text to Boric's 2024 article 71T on intellectual property for AI, rejected by the Chamber of Deputies. Press and TV guilds reject the measure for allowing massive use of works without authorization. The initiative is part of an ambitious economic reform with partial opposition support.
President José Antonio Kast signed, alongside Finance Minister Jorge Quiroz, the megarreforma or National Reconstruction Plan bill this Wednesday, sent to the Chamber of Deputies. The initiative covers five axes: tax competitiveness, formal employment, regulatory facilitation, legal certainty, and public spending containment.
A controversial point is article 8, which replicates verbatim article 71T from Gabriel Boric's May 2024 AI bill. It allows 'reproduction, adaptation, distribution or public communication' of published works without remuneration or authorization for statistical data analysis in AI, provided it is not covert exploitation. The previous proposal was rejected in committees and the Chamber floor in 2025, despite amendments limiting it to scientific research.
The National Press Association (ANP) and Anatel expressed rejection. "The protection of copyright is a condition of possibility for the free exercise of journalism," stated José Tomás Santa María, ANP president. Pablo Vidal of Anatel criticized that it benefits foreign AI companies at the expense of national content.
The government defends the exception to resolve legal ambiguities hindering AI development in Chile, according to Quiroz's presentation. Opposition, including PC and Frente Amplio, accuses constitutional flaws and plans to appeal to the Constitutional Court, while PDG supports the idea of legislating.
