New AI laws in Illinois

Illinois has enacted 2 new AI laws. The bills will protect the likeness of artists and allow for private causes of action when someone’s likeness is used without authorization. The Right of Publicity Act prohibits unauthorized digital replicas by defining a replica as “a newly created, electronic representation of the voice, image or likeness of an actual individual created using a computer, algorithm, software, tool, artificial intelligence or other technology.”

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