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.
The Supreme Court held that to prevail on a retaliatory arrest claim, the plaintiff must show that the official acted with a retaliatory motive and the act was a “but-for” cause of the Constitutional injury.
