Indonesia is preparing a copyright overhaul that would put AI platforms under a new legal duty to pay for news link previews and for copyrighted material used in model training, Reuters reported on July 17th. The draft bill would also recognize AI-assisted works only when they contain meaningful human creative input, while excluding fully AI-generated works from copyright protection. It would ban AI imitation of a creator's distinctive style, require disclosure when AI is used in content, and allow sanctions against non-compliant platforms, including the removal of local operating permits.

The protected hand returns to the argument over culture as raw material. Generative systems have treated journalism, images, code, music, games, films, and photographs as a reservoir to be absorbed first and negotiated later. Indonesia's draft reverses that sequence. It asks where the human contribution sits, who pays when a platform converts publication into training supply, and whether style can be extracted without touching the signature that made it valuable. The difficult part will be enforcement, since a model rarely shows the path from source to output. The law still names the missing actor. Before the machine can claim creation, someone has to prove where the hand entered the work.