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Committee hears bill to bar fabricated AI uses of a person’s voice, name and likeness
Summary
Representative Jill Koehnauer presented HB 513 to create a private right of action for unauthorized AI-generated depictions and voice replicas and to protect first-amendment uses; sponsors said the bill targets fabricated digital impersonations while preserving news and parody carve-outs.
Representative Jill Koehnauer opened a hearing on House Bill 513, a proposal to grant individuals a statutory property right in their name, voice and likeness and to allow civil claims when those personal attributes are digitally fabricated or used without consent.
Koehnauer told the committee the draft would extend the kind of name-and-likeness protections already enacted for college athletes to "every single one of us," allow those rights to be transferred to descendants, and create damages and disgorgement remedies when an algorithm, software tool or other technology produces fabricated depictions or voice replicas without consent. The bill would also allow a…
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