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Sponsor seeks trust and deletion rights for child influencers; platforms urge narrow fixes
Summary
House Bill 21 would require creators who monetize content featuring minors to place a proportionate share of earnings into trusts and permit former child subjects to request deletion; tech trade groups warned the bill as drafted could force platforms to adjudicate private disputes and urged amendments.
Delegate Nick Allen told the committee that House Bill 21, the Child Influencers Protection Act, aims to protect minors who appear in monetized online content by requiring creators who earn money from that content to place a percentage of earnings into trusts for the children and to allow those children, once adults, to request content removal.
Allen cited the historical Coogan Act for child actors as…
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