Bill Text: IL SB3325 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Amends the Right of Publicity Act. Grants additional enforcement rights and remedies to recording artists. Provides for the liability of any person who materially contributes to, induces, or otherwise facilitates a violation of a specified provision of the Act by another party after having reason to know that the other party is in violation. Defines "artificial intelligence" and "generative artificial intelligence". Changes the definition of "commercial purpose" and "identity".
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-3)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-19 - Rule 3-9(a) / Re-referred to Assignments [SB3325 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2023-SB3325-Introduced.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning civil law.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Right of Publicity Act is amended by | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | changing Sections 5, 20, and 30 as follows:
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| 6 | (765 ILCS 1075/5) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7 | Sec. 5. Definitions. As used in this Act: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8 | "Artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | that can make predictions, recommendations, or decisions | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10 | influencing real or virtual environments for a given set of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 11 | human-defined objectives. "Artificial intelligence" includes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 12 | generative artificial intelligence. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | "Commercial purpose" means the public use or holding out | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | of an individual's identity (i) on or in connection with the | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | offering for sale or sale of a product, merchandise, goods, or | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | services; (ii) for purposes of advertising or promoting | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | products, merchandise, goods, or services; or (iii) for the | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 18 | purpose of fundraising; or (iv) for the purposes of | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 19 | distributing, transmitting, or otherwise making available a | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 20 | sound recording or audiovisual work that contains a simulated | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | or artificially created version of an individual's identity, | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | as a substitute for, in place of, or in a competitive fashion | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 23 | with, a sound recording or audiovisual work the individual | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | would otherwise have personally created using the individual's | ||||||
| 2 | identity. | ||||||
| 3 | "Generative artificial intelligence" means an automated | ||||||
| 4 | computing system that, when prompted with human prompts, | ||||||
| 5 | descriptions, or queries, can produce outputs that simulate | ||||||
| 6 | human-produced content, including, but not limited to, the | ||||||
| 7 | following: | ||||||
| 8 | (1) textual outputs, such as short answers, essays, | ||||||
| 9 | poetry, or longer compositions or answers; | ||||||
| 10 | (2) image outputs, such as fine art, photographs, | ||||||
| 11 | conceptual art, diagrams, and other images; | ||||||
| 12 | (3) multimedia outputs, such as audio or video in the | ||||||
| 13 | form of compositions, songs, or short-form or long-form | ||||||
| 14 | audio or video; and | ||||||
| 15 | (4) other content that would be otherwise produced by | ||||||
| 16 | human means. | ||||||
| 17 | "Identity" means any attribute of an individual that | ||||||
| 18 | occurs in any medium, that is readily identifiable and | ||||||
| 19 | attributable to a particular individual, regardless of whether | ||||||
| 20 | the attribute contains the actual attribute of an individual, | ||||||
| 21 | a simulation of the attribute of an individual, or is created | ||||||
| 22 | through the use of artificial intelligence, and that serves to | ||||||
| 23 | identify that individual to an ordinary, reasonable viewer or | ||||||
| 24 | listener, including but not limited to, (i) name, (ii) | ||||||
| 25 | signature, (iii) photograph, (iv) image, (v) likeness, or (vi) | ||||||
| 26 | voice. | ||||||
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| 1 | "Individual" means a living or deceased natural person, | ||||||
| 2 | regardless of whether the identity of that individual has been | ||||||
| 3 | used for a commercial purpose during the individual's | ||||||
| 4 | lifetime. | ||||||
| 5 | "Juristic person" means a partnership, trust, estate, | ||||||
| 6 | corporation, unincorporated association, or other organization | ||||||
| 7 | capable of suing and being sued in a court of law. | ||||||
| 8 | "Name" means the actual name or other name by which an | ||||||
| 9 | individual is known that is intended to identify that | ||||||
| 10 | individual. | ||||||
| 11 | "Person" means a natural or juristic person. | ||||||
| 12 | "Work of Fine Art" means (i) a visual rendition including, | ||||||
| 13 | but not limited to, a painting, drawing, sculpture, mosaic, | ||||||
| 14 | videotape, or photograph; (ii) a work of calligraphy; (iii) a | ||||||
| 15 | work of graphic art including, but not limited to, an etching, | ||||||
| 16 | lithograph, serigraph, or offset print; (iv) a craft work in | ||||||
| 17 | materials including, but not limited to, clay, textile, fiber, | ||||||
| 18 | wood, metal, plastic, or glass; or (v) a work in mixed media | ||||||
| 19 | including, but not limited to, a collage, assemblage, or work | ||||||
| 20 | consisting of any combination of items (i) through (iv). | ||||||
| 21 | (Source: P.A. 90-747, eff. 1-1-99.)
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| 22 | (765 ILCS 1075/20) | ||||||
| 23 | Sec. 20. Enforcement of rights and remedies. | ||||||
| 24 | (a) The rights and remedies set forth in this Act may be | ||||||
| 25 | exercised and enforced by: | ||||||
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| 1 | (1) an individual or his or her authorized | ||||||
| 2 | representative; | ||||||
| 3 | (2) a person to whom the recognized rights have been | ||||||
| 4 | transferred by written transfer under Section 15 of this | ||||||
| 5 | Act; or | ||||||
| 6 | (3) after the death of an individual who has not | ||||||
| 7 | transferred the recognized rights by written transfer | ||||||
| 8 | under this Act, any person or persons who possesses an | ||||||
| 9 | interest in those rights. | ||||||
| 10 | (a-5) In addition to the exercise and enforcement of | ||||||
| 11 | rights and remedies in subsection (a), the rights and remedies | ||||||
| 12 | set forth in this Act may, in the case of an individual who is | ||||||
| 13 | a recording artist, be exercised and enforced by: | ||||||
| 14 | (1) the individual who is the recording artist; or | ||||||
| 15 | (2) a person who has entered into a contract for the | ||||||
| 16 | individual's exclusive personal services as a recording | ||||||
| 17 | artist or who has entered into a contract for an exclusive | ||||||
| 18 | license to distribute sound recordings that capture the | ||||||
| 19 | recording artist's audio performances. | ||||||
| 20 | (b) Each person described in paragraph (3) of subsection | ||||||
| 21 | (a) shall make a proportional accounting to, and shall act at | ||||||
| 22 | all times in good faith with respect to, any other person in | ||||||
| 23 | whom the rights being enforced have vested. | ||||||
| 24 | (Source: P.A. 90-747, eff. 1-1-99.)
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| 25 | (765 ILCS 1075/30) | ||||||
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