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Carve-out: the row for what a duty gives up

Carve-out is the row recording relief the paragraph writes into its own duty. Some exits remove the duty, one leaves it in place and narrows its shape, and the record keeps those under different row names because collapsing them loses the difference. As of 2026-09-12.

Three kinds of relief under three row namesA paragraph can drop its duty where the situation is already obvious, leave it off editing that barely alters the input, or keep the duty and narrow what the disclosure has to say. The record files those under different row names because they are not the same relief.What the paragraph writes into its own dutyThe duty falls awayObvious in contextDropped where a reasonablywell-informed, observantperson would already know.The duty never attachesStandard editingLeft off assistive editingthat does not substantiallyalter the input.The duty changes shapeArtistic workKept, but narrowed so thatenjoyment of the work is nothampered.Filed as carve-out, carve-outs, or narrowing
Fig. 1 Reading every exemption in the article as the same kind of exit is a common way this part of the text gets misquoted.
Which columns the source fillsFilled where the page behind the row names something in that column, hollow where that page is silent. Silence is recorded rather than filled in.Which columns the source fillsHow the page names itHow the page namesitWhat the text gives upWhat the text givesupArticle 50(1)Article 50(1) — How the page names it: Carve-outArticle 50(1) — What the text gives up: Where it is obvious to a reasonably well-informed, observant personArticle 50(2)Article 50(2) — How the page names it: Carve-outsArticle 50(2) — What the text gives up: Assistive standard editing; systems that do not substantially alter inputArticle 50(4)Article 50(4) — How the page names it: NarrowingArticle 50(4) — What the text gives up: Evidently artistic, creative, satirical or fictional workArticle 50(4), textArticle 50(4), text — How the page names it: Carve-outArticle 50(4), text — What the text gives up: Human review plus editorial responsibility for the publication
Fig. 2 Filled where the page behind the row names something in that column, hollow where that page is silent. Silence is recorded rather than filled in.
Relief as each paragraph words it, and the row its page files it under. Recorded 2026-09-12.
ParagraphHow the page names itWhat the text gives up
Article 50(1)Carve-outWhere it is obvious to a reasonably well-informed, observant person
Article 50(2)Carve-outsAssistive standard editing; systems that do not substantially alter input
Article 50(4)NarrowingEvidently artistic, creative, satirical or fictional work
Article 50(4), textCarve-outHuman review plus editorial responsibility for the publication

Inclusion rule. Paragraph pages whose row records something the duty gives up. A paragraph with no relief written into it carries no such row rather than an empty one. Order. Clause order, as the article itself runs.

1Relief comes in more than one shape, so it carries more than one row name

The interaction paragraph drops its duty where the situation is already obvious to a reasonably well-informed, observant and circumspect person. The marking paragraph leaves out assistive standard editing that does not substantially alter the input. The subparagraph on published text lifts its duty where the output had human review and a person holds editorial responsibility for it.

The deep-fake paragraph does something else again. For work that is evidently artistic, creative, satirical or fictional it keeps a disclosure and narrows what that disclosure has to say, so its page files the relief under a narrowing row instead. Reading all of these as the same kind of exemption is a common way this part of the article gets misquoted.

2One page uses the plural, and the reason is in the text

The marking paragraph carries two pieces of relief in one sentence, so its row is plural where the others are singular. The record follows the paragraph rather than normalising the label, because how many exemptions a paragraph writes in is itself a fact about that paragraph.

This is the kind of detail a tidy schema erases. A column forced into one shape across every entry reads more neatly and quietly drops the thing that made it worth recording.

3Relief attaches to its own paragraph and nowhere else

Each of these sits inside the duty it belongs to. Editorial responsibility lifts a disclosure duty on published text; it does nothing to the marking duty carried by whoever built the generator, because that duty is addressed to a different party altogether.

The record keeps them on the paragraph pages for that reason, and this page only reads down the column. Anyone checking whether a particular arrangement reaches one of them has to start from the paragraph, and that judgement is not made here.

4What the cell records, and the date on it

Each cell holds the relief as its paragraph words it, shortened only where the sentence is long, with the reading date on the entry below. Where the text sets a standard rather than a list, such as what a reasonably well-informed person would find obvious, the cell keeps the standard rather than offering examples the article withholds.

That is the limit of what a register can do with this part of the text. These exemptions are written as judgements, and recording a judgement faithfully means recording that it is one.

  • Article 50(1)
    Providers must design systems so people are told they are dealing with an AI systemunless it is obvious in contextAI Act Explorer, Article 50 / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Article 50(2)
    Machine-readable marking does not apply to assistive standard editing that does not substantially alter the inputsecond exemptionAI Act Explorer, Article 50 / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Article 50(4)
    For evidently artistic, creative, satirical or fictional work the duty narrows to disclosing that such content exists, in a way that does not hamper enjoyment of the workfirst subparagraphAI Act Explorer, Article 50 / recorded 2026-09-12
  • Article 50(4)
    The text duty falls away where the output had human review or editorial control and a person holds editorial responsibilitysecond subparagraphAI Act Explorer, Article 50 / recorded 2026-09-12

5Sources

Article wording from AI Act Explorer, Article 50. Read 2026-09-12. The cells themselves stay on the entries they were taken from; the other rows are listed on the fields page. Next to this one: The fourth row, Read from.