SB79 Summary: Personal Rights Protection Act

• Creates property rights in an individual's name, voice, signature, photograph, and likeness that are freely transferable, assignable, licensable, and descendible, and do not expire upon death.

• Prohibits commercial use of an individual's name, voice, signature, photograph, or likeness without prior consent, with violators liable for damages and disgorgement of profits.

• Requires successors in interest to register claims with the Secretary of State on a form verified under oath with a filing fee not to exceed $25.00 to recover damages for unauthorized commercial use.

• Provides fair use exceptions for news, public affairs, sports broadcasts, entertainment works, artistic works, political content, and uses by educational institutions or nonprofits affiliated with an individual.

• Grants property rights exclusively to individuals during their lifetime and to their executors, administrators, heirs, devisees, and assigns for 50 years after death; establishes civil remedies including injunctions, confiscation of contraband goods, and destruction of materials used in violations.