California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two payments in the present day designed to present better protections to performers and others over the usage of their digital likenesses throughout their lives and to their estates.
Newsom signed the laws on the headquarters of SAG-AFTRA, which has been one of many main champions of the brand new legal guidelines.
A.B. 1836 expands the scope of the state’s postmortem proper of publicity, together with the usage of digital replicas, that means that an property’s permission could be wanted to make use of such expertise to recreate the voice and likeness of a deceased individual. There are exceptions for information, public affairs and sports activities broadcasts, in addition to for different makes use of like satire, remark, criticism and parody, and for sure documentary, biographical or historic tasks.
The opposite invoice, A.B. 2602, bolsters protections for artists in contract agreements over the usage of their digital likenesses.
“It’s a momentous day for SAG-AFTRA members and everybody else, as a result of the A.I. protections we fought so laborious for final yr are actually expanded upon by California regulation due to the Legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom,” stated SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher.
The Movement Image Affiliation, which initially expressed opposition to the brand new legal guidelines, in the end took a impartial stance.
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