State · 1 law
Anyone can seek a fast court declaration that a published AI impersonation of them is fake; damages are limited to narrow cases.
State · 1 law
The Frank Broyles publicity law was amended in 2025 to cover AI-simulated voice and likeness.
Country · 2 laws
Sharing sexual deepfakes is a federal crime; a Digital Duty of Care bill (introduced Oct 15, 2026) would add platform duties, including on fake nude material.
Country · 2 laws
Election rules ban deepfakes in campaigns; a comprehensive AI bill is stalled in the Chamber.
State · 1 law
A fast civil process to remove intimate images, including altered ones.
Industry · 1 law
An open technical standard for content credentials that many labeling laws point to.
State · 16 laws
One of the most developed regimes: a publicity statute, digital-replica contract and estate-consent rules (AB 2602, AB 1836), AI content labeling, and SB 1111 (Ch. 862, effective Jan 1, 2027) extending the core likeness statute to AI digital replicas.
Country · 1 law
2026 Criminal Code changes cover sexual deepfakes; provinces add privacy and intimate-image laws.
State · 1 law
A 2026 provincial law makes sharing non-consensual sexual deepfakes a punishable offence and sets up victim support.
Country · 3 laws
The Civil Code protects portrait and voice; AI content must be labeled, and deep synthesis rules require consent to edit faces or voices.
State · 3 laws
Biometric consent rules under the Colorado Privacy Act and disclosure rules for candidate deepfakes.
State · 1 law
Large consumer AI image, video and audio tools must embed provenance data from Oct 1, 2026 (Public Act 26-15), enforced by the Attorney General.
Country · 1 law
A 2026 copyright-law amendment requires express consent before anyone publishes a deepfake of a person's face, voice or other identifying traits, or of a performer's performance; the right lasts 50 years after death.
Country · 1 law
Formal bill L 49 (introduced Oct 8, 2026) would add a copyright-style consent right over realistic digital imitations of face, voice and movements, proposed to take effect Jan 1, 2027; not yet enacted.
Industry · 1 law
UK performers' union is negotiating the first automatic AI protections with producers (Pact).
Region · 6 laws
GDPR treats biometrics as special data; AI Act Article 50 requires labeling of AI content and deepfakes from Aug 2026. There is no EU-wide personality right.
State · 3 laws
Long-standing likeness statute, a 48-hour takedown law for sexual deepfakes (Brooke's Law), and AI disclaimers in political ads.
State · 2 laws
Right of publicity exists through court decisions, not statute; a 2025-26 AI deepfake bill did not pass.
Country · 1 law
A government bill (Oct 2026) would make creating or sharing sexual deepfakes and spreading harmful deepfakes crimes and help victims unmask anonymous accounts; not yet law.
State · 1 law
A 2026 law lets people sue over unauthorized realistic AI imitations, with statutory damages.
State · 5 laws
Home of BIPA, the strictest US biometric privacy law with a private right to sue, plus digital-replica contract and publicity rules.
Country · 3 laws
Courts grant fast personality-rights injunctions; 2026 IT Rules require AI labeling; the DPDP Act phases in consent duties through 2027.
State · 3 laws
One of the longest post-mortem publicity rights (100 years), plus election and intimate deepfake laws.
Country · 1 law
Italy's 2025 national AI law made spreading harmful, non-consensual AI deepfakes a crime punishable by 1 to 5 years in prison.
Country · 3 laws
No personality-rights statute; 2026 Ministry of Justice guidance applies publicity principles to AI voice and likeness, and AI-made images and video in online election material must be labeled from Mar 1, 2027.
State · 1 law
The Allen Toussaint Legacy Act explicitly covers digital replicas and lasts 50 years after death.
State · 3 laws
Laws on AI intimate images and deepfake impersonation; the Governor has proposed a statutory right of publicity for 2027.
State · 1 law
A House-passed budget bill (Oct 2026) would require AI labels on paid political ads and ban malicious election deepfakes within 90 days of an election. The Senate passed its own version on Nov 5, 2026 without those sections, so their fate rests with a House-Senate conference committee.
Country · 1 law
Since May 2026, performers' voice and image, including AI clones, can only be used with their express consent. A platform takedown reform covering AI-altered voices and images passed Congress in Nov 2026 and awaits publication.
State · 1 law
Disclosure rules for AI in political ads and limits on deceptive election deepfakes.
State · 1 law
Election deepfake crime and civil remedies for sexual deepfakes.
State · 2 laws
A 2026 property right in name, voice and likeness covers digital replicas; the election deepfake law is partly enjoined.
State · 1 law
Statutory right of publicity with post-mortem protection.
State · 1 law
Fraudulent use of deepfakes is a felony, and victims can sue.
State · 5 laws
Deceptive AI media used for unlawful purposes is a crime, and victims can sue. Pending bills would add a consent-required civil right against GenAI likeness and voice clones (A5088 / S4702), a statutory right of publicity over name, image, likeness and voice (A3065), and AI content labels (A5089).
State · 1 law
No enacted digital-replica publicity statute. HB0212 (Voice and Visual Likeness Rights Act) was postponed indefinitely in March 2026 and did not become law.
State · 6 laws
Strong publicity and post-mortem rights, contract rules for digital replicas, and disclosure of synthetic performers in ads.
State · 1 law
Statutory right of publicity lasting 60 years after death.
State · 2 laws
A 2025 digital forgery crime targets harmful voice and face clones. SB 806 (Act 99 of 2026, signed Oct 22, 2026) requires labels on misleading AI content in ads from Dec 21, 2026.
State · 1 law
The right-of-image law was updated in Aug 2026 to cover AI-generated, cloned or altered likenesses and voices.
State · 1 law
Biometric identity checks need express consent and advance notice to the privacy regulator.
Industry · 5 laws
Union contracts require informed consent and pay for digital replicas across film/TV, commercials, games and music.
Country · 5 laws
Strict sexual-deepfake crimes (including possession and viewing), a pre-election deepfake ban, and AI labeling under the AI Basic Act. Pending bills would treat AI digital replicas of well-known people as unfair competition and lengthen the pre-election deepfake ban.
State · 1 law
The ELVIS Act made voice, including simulated voice, a protected property right and can reach makers of cloning tools.
State · 5 laws
Biometric consent law (CUBI) enforced by the Attorney General, post-mortem publicity rights, and deepfake crimes for sexual and election content.
Country · 5 laws
No standalone personality right; creating and sharing sexual deepfakes and supplying nudify tools are crimes; biometrics are protected under UK GDPR.
Federal · 13 laws
No federal right of publicity yet. TAKE IT DOWN requires 48-hour removal of intimate deepfakes; NO FAKES (Senate calendar; Cruz blocked UC Sept 30, 2026) and DEFIANCE (Senate-passed, held in House) remain pending.
State · 3 laws
A fast-moving state: AI impersonation and identity-consent rights (2025-26), and consent-and-provenance duties for AI intimate images from 2027.
State · 2 laws
Voice added to the unauthorized-use statute in 2026; an early law on synthetic sexual images.
State · 6 laws
Personality rights now cover forged digital likenesses (2026), alongside biometric and health-data consent laws and deepfake crimes.
Industry · 1 law
The 2026 contract keeps writers' AI protections and adds notice when studios license work for AI training.