H.B. 2294 would require internet service providers to block access to “pornographic” material for all users. A failure to do so shall be treated as a deceptive or unfair act or practice and is subject to penalties under the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act.
S.B. 733 would require internet service providers to block their customers’ access to depictions — and possibly descriptions — of nudity and sexual activity.
H.B. 1157 would require any “New Hampshire news media organization” to update, retract or correct any story published to the internet concerning a criminal proceeding brought against a specific person if the person was subsequently found not guilty, acquitted, or the charges were dismissed.
S.B. 864 is a mandatory filtering bill that would bar anyone from manufacturing, distributing, or selling any product that makes content accessible on the internet from doing business in the state unless the product has active and operating “digital blocking capability” that blocks access to obscene material.
A.B. 5605 and S.B. 5959 would create a right of publicity for the life of a person plus 40 years after their death. It would bar the use of a person’s name, portrait or picture, voice, or signature (collectively, their persona) without written consent in advertising or for the purposes of trade (or fundraising).
H.B. 691 and H.B. 1027 would expand the definition of child pornography to include computer-generated images that are indistinguishable from an actual minor under the age of 16 years old.
A.B. 71 would expand the definition of child pornography to include the language “depicting a child for the purpose of sexual stimulation or gratification of any person who may view the depiction” and lack serious value.
H.B. 180 would deem to be profit from a crime any income generated from a movie, book, or any other media that describes or depicts the crime and includes any thoughts, feelings, opinions, or emotions of “an individual.”
H.B. 179 is a right of publicity bill that would make the unauthorized use of a person’s likeness a misdemeanor crime. There is a very limited exception to the right for use of a person’s likeness in “news, public affairs, or sports broadcast,” but not for any other media or other type of content.
H.B. 377 would create a right of publicity for the life of the person plus 70 years postmortem. There is an exception for non-commercial uses unless the “identity is used to create an unauthorized performance.”
H.B. 1334 would bar the posting or dissemination, through any electronic means, of an image of a minor committing suicide or attempting to do so.
H.B. 855 and S.B. 1454 would make several changes to the definition of harmful to minors and to the definition of child pornography.
H.B. 1154 is a mandatory filtering bill that would bar a distributor from manufacturing or distributing a product that makes content available on the internet unless it contains filtering software.
S.B. 736 would expand the definition of child pornography to include computer-generated images that are indistinguishable from an actual minor under the age of 16 years old.
H.B. 567 is a mandatory filtering bill that would make it illegal to manufacture or distribute a product that makes any content accessible on the internet without “digital blocking capability.”
H.B. 109 would impose a 10 percent tax on the sale of any video game rated “Mature” or “Adults Only” by the video game industry rating system.
Pennsylvania state Rep. Christopher B. Quinn, R-Media, released a memorandum on September 25, 2018 stating his intent “to introduce legislation which would assess a 10% sales tax on video games that contains violent material.”
A.B. 8155b and S.B. 5857b would amend New York’s existing right of privacy law to create a new right of publicity for the life of a person plus 40 years after their death. It would bar the use of a person’s name, portrait or picture, voice or signature — i.e., their persona — without their consent in advertising or for the purposes of trade. The new right is a property right that can be transferred and is inheritable. Name is defined to include a person’s nickname.
Rhode Island Senate Bill 2584 is an HTPA bill, which requires Internet Service Providers to provide filtering software that renders “sexual content and/or patently offensive material” inaccessible with any service or product it sells or leases.
Summary H.B. 127 is an HTPA bill. It bars any person from manufacturing, distributing or selling any device in Wyoming unless it has working filters to block access to websites that contain obscene material or that facilitate...
Summary S.B. 460 is an HTPA bill. It bars any retailer from selling or leasing any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless it has operating filtering software that blocks access to obscene material, revenge...
Summary S.B. 2280 is an HTPA bill. It bars any business that makes a first sale of a device that allows the user to view or download content from the internet from selling or renting such a device unless it has operating...
Summary H.B. 2685 is an HTPA bill. It bars any business that makes a first sale of a device that allows the user to view or download content from the internet from selling or renting such a device unless it has operating...
Summary H.B. 3003 (HTPA) requires that all devices that allow access to the internet must come with an “active and operating digital blocking capability” that make obscene material “inaccessible.” The “digital blocking...
Summary S.B. 2028 is an HTPA bill, that bars the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, lease or other distribution of any device that makes content accessible on the internet unless the device has active and properly operating...
