NO FAKES Act of 2026
Official title: To protect intellectual property rights in the voice and visual likeness of individuals, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act of 2026 or the NO FAKES Act of 2026
This bill creates a federal intellectual property right to protect individuals from unauthorized digital replicas (e.g., digital content made using generative artificial intelligence) of their voice and visual likeness.
Specifically, the bill gives each individual or right holder the right to authorize the use of the individual's voice or visual likeness (1) in a digital replica, or (2) for a product or service requiring authorization to avoid liability under the bill. This property right is not assignable during the individual’s lifetime but is licensable and does not expire upon the death of the individual.
Generally, any individual or entity that engages in specified prohibited activities (e.g., distributing a digital replica without authorization) shall be liable in a civil action and subject to related penalties. The bill exempts specified uses from liability, such as categories of conduct likely to involve protected speech under the First Amendment (e.g., news reporting, sports broadcasts, and satire).
The bill establishes (1) a notice-and-takedown process for unauthorized digital replicas; and (2) a counter-notification process, which allows an individual to contest the removal of a digital replica. The bill establishes penalties related to false or deceptive notice or counter-notice.
The bill expressly preempts state laws related to digital replicas except for causes of action under state statutes or common law in existence as of January 2, 2025.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
- RECORDING ACADEMY (FKA NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS AND SCIENCES)
- UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP
- DISNEY WORLDWIDE SERVICES, INC.
- ENTERTAINMENT SOFTWARE ASSOCIATION
- DIGITAL MEDIA ASSN
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
- State, Dept of (DOS)
- U.S. Copyright Office
- Bureau of Citizenship & Immigration Services (BCIS)
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Patent & Trademark Office (PTO)
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 8915: NO FAKES Act of 2026. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8915/
"H.R. 8915: NO FAKES Act of 2026." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8915/.
H.R. 8915, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-8915/.
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