Angela Yang is a culture and trends reporter for NBC News.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills Tuesday aimed at protecting actors and other performers from unauthorized use of their digital likenesses. Introduced in the state Legislature early this year, the bills specify new legal protections — both during performers’ lifetimes and after death — around the digital replication of their image or voice.
The other law, AB 1836, specifically protects digital likenesses as part of performers’ posthumous right of publicity, a legal right that protects people’s identities from unauthorized commercial use. It allows the rights holders for deceased personalities to sue if digital replicas of them are used without permission in movies or sound recordings. The rights holders would be entitled to at least $10,000 or the amount of actual damages caused by the unauthorized use, whichever figure is greater.
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