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NY A03924
Bill
Status
1/30/2025
Primary Sponsor
Alex Bores
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AI Summary
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Expands New York's existing right of privacy law to explicitly cover portraits, pictures, likenesses, or voices created or altered through digitization, including AI-generated content
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Defines "digitization" as the use of software, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or other computer-generated means to adapt, modify, manipulate, or alter a realistic depiction of a person
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Makes it a misdemeanor to use a digitized likeness or voice of any living person for advertising or trade purposes without their written consent (or parental consent for minors)
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Allows individuals to sue for injunctive relief and damages when their digitized likeness or voice is used without consent, with potential exemplary damages for knowing violations
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Known as the "right to your own image act" and would take effect immediately upon passage
Legislative Description
Relates to privacy rights involving digitization; provides that such right of privacy and action for injunction and damages shall include a portrait, picture, likeness or voice created or altered by digitization.
Last Action
referred to judiciary
1/7/2026