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Software, AI and a digital manufacturing file can be products. Free open-source work outside a commercial activity follows a narrow exclusion.
Scope
Role, product, commercial activity and the placement band. The corrected text uses the day after 8 December 2026.
Software, AI and a digital manufacturing file can be products. Free open-source work outside a commercial activity follows a narrow exclusion.
It shows a pathway. It does not decide who must pay.
The corrigendum moved Article 2(1) to products placed after 8 December 2026. Transposition remains 9 December 2026.