Benin: AI content labelling rules

The rules on labelling AI-generated content in Benin, what each asks of a file, and what one Kennmarq.com call adds.

In short

Images: No general rule found
Video: No general rule found
Audio: No general rule found
Text: No general rule found
3D: No general rule found
Rules: 1 for some sectors only.
In the API: markets=bj

Updated 4 November 2026; sources checked 4 November 2026. Sources are government sites. This page explains what Kennmarq.com does; it isn't legal advice.

Publishing online a montage of a person's words or image without consent is an offence unless obvious or expressly said to be one (Digital Code art. 576).

Rules for specific sectors

News and broadcast media

Media Ethics Code (CDEM, 2025), Art. 13: In force since 21 February 2025. Flag explicitly any press production that is reconstructed, scripted or based on artificial intelligence.

In the API

Send markets=bj on each call to POST /v1/mark: a call that lacks what Benin's rules need is refused before anything is counted, and each mark gets a receipt of what it carries for each law.

What a mark for Benin carries, by kind of file
File	Made with AI	A deep fake (`deepfake=true`)
Picture	Watermark and Content Credentials	Watermark and Content Credentials
Clip	Watermark and Content Credentials	Watermark and Content Credentials
Song	Watermark and Content Credentials	Refused for now: a song can't carry a visible label, and spoken notices for deep fakes aren't available yet: leave "deepfake" off for songs.

Mark a picture for Benin

curl https://api.kennmarq.com/v1/mark \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KENNMARQ_API_KEY" \
  -F file=@image.png \
  -F source=created \
  -F markets=bj \
  -o image.marked.png

An AI coding agent gets the same answer from the MCP tool get_requirements (MCP server).

Benin on the map, and every country's rules side by side.