Bill > S4875

This bill, the "Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2024" or the "NO FAKES Act of 2024," aims to protect the intellectual property rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Establishing a "digital replication right" for individuals or their right holders to authorize the use of their voice or visual likeness in digital replicas, which are newly-created, computer-generated, highly realistic electronic representations. This right is a property right, non-assignable during the individual's lifetime, and can be licensed or transferred after the individual's death. 2. Imposing civil liability for the unauthorized production, publication, reproduction, display, distribution, or transmission of digital replicas, with certain exceptions for bona fide news, public affairs, sports, documentary, historical, biographical, commentary, criticism, scholarship, satire, or parody uses. 3. Providing safe harbors for online services that remove or disable access to unauthorized digital replicas upon receiving proper notification, and penalties for false or deceptive notifications. 4. Allowing civil actions to be brought by various eligible plaintiffs, including right holders, parents/guardians of minors, and those with exclusive contracts with sound recording artists. 5. Preempting certain state-law causes of action related to digital replicas, while preserving others, and applying retroactively to individuals who have died before the bill's enactment.