State Privacy Laws, Name and Likeness

Voices on Trial: Voice Actors, AI Cloning, and the Fight for Identity Rights

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 7/14/2025

A New York court just decided some important preliminary motions (which I previously covered here in this post) involving allegedly unauthorized AI cloning of voice actors. The court reached a split decision, concluding...more

Employer Cheat Sheet for Workplace Laws Taking Effect July 1

Fisher Phillips on 6/24/2025

Most employers are prepared for new laws at the start of each year – but did you know that a heap of new workplace laws take effect at the halfway point? Here’s your employer cheat sheet to prepare for July 1 effective dates…...more

Your Employee's Right of Publicity (NIL)

Venable LLP on 2/21/2025

Your company believes it has an employee-friendly culture, and it wants to publicize/exhibit/promote/exploit that positive experience in its external marketing and promotional materials and internal correspondence and...more

Right To Know - April 2024, Vol. 16

Clark Hill PLC on 4/17/2024

Cyber, Privacy, and Technology Report - Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things cyber, privacy, and technology, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more

Seventh Circuit Deals (Final) Blow to Suspect Right of Publicity Privacy Class Actions Rising in the Courts

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 12/1/2022

Key Points - Over the last several years, the class action bar has targeted companies in a wave of putative class actions under state “right of publicity” statutes. Although they vary some around the edges, these statutes...more

Is Your Privacy Violated by Using Your Face to Train AI to Recognize Faces?

Womble Bond Dickinson on 7/22/2020

If a picture of your face is used for a purpose that doesn’t identify you, is your privacy violated? If the publicly available picture was used just to show a face, distinguished from some faces, similar to others, and fed...more