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Human Artistry Campaign Endorses No Fakes ACT

by Soraya Alcalá
Landmark Bipartisan Bill Introduced by Senators Coons, Blackburn, Klobuchar and Tillis Would Create New Right for Use of Voice and Visual Likeness in Digital Replicas
Bill Empowers Artists, Voice Actors, and Individual Victims to Fight Back Against AI Deepfakes and Voice Clones

WASHINGTON, DC 

The Human Artistry Campaign today announced its support of the “Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2024” (“NO FAKES Act”) – landmark legislation creating an enforceable new federal intellectual property right allowing victims of nonconsensual deepfakes and voice clones to have them quickly taken down and recover damages.

Building off the original NO FAKES discussion draft released last October and introduced in the US Senate today by Senators Chris Coons (D-DE), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Thom Tillis (D-NC), the bill sets a strong federal baseline protecting all Americans from the invasive AI-generated deepfakes flooding digital platforms today. From young students bullied by nonconsensual sexually explicit replicas of their likenesses to recording artists and performers replicated to sing or perform in expressive works they never created or consented to, the NO FAKES Act provides a powerful and much needed new weapon in the fight to protect people’s images and voices from being stolen, cloned, and misused.

Taking a thoughtful, measured approach, the legislation preserves existing state causes of action and rights of publicity, including Tennessee’s groundbreaking ELVIS Act. It also contains carefully calibrated exceptions to protect the public’s genuine interest in free speech, open discourse, and creative storytelling – without trampling the underlying need for real, enforceable protection against the vast range of invasive and harmful deepfakes and voice clones.

With the introduction of the Senate NO FAKES Act today and the introduction of the Salazar-Dean No AI FRAUD Act in the House of Representatives earlier this year, there is now bipartisan, bicameral momentum to pass these critical protections into federal law.

A summary of the bill's provisions is available HERE

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