Who controls an individual's data, voice, likeness, writing style, preferences, memories, and behavioral model?
Digital replicas have outpaced likeness law, and behavioral models of individuals raise questions consent frameworks weren't built for: you can decline to share data and still be modeled.
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Identity rights advanced on two fronts while conversational privacy retreated on a third: the NO FAKES Act cleared Senate Judiciary unanimously — the furthest a federal digital-replica right has advanced — Denmark pushed likeness-copyright across the EU, and a court ordered 20 million user chat logs produced in litigation discovery, establishing that conversations users 'voluntarily submitted' get weaker protection than wiretap material.
The bill would create a new federal intellectual property right giving every individual the right to control how their likeness is used in digital replicas.
Tracks the revised NO FAKES Act through unanimous Senate Judiciary approval in June 2026 — the furthest a federal digital-replica right has ever advanced.
OpenAI must now produce 20 million de-identified ChatGPT logs to both news plaintiffs and class plaintiffs.
Analyzes the order compelling production of 20 million user conversations in the copyright MDL — establishing that chats users 'voluntarily submitted' get weaker protection than wiretap material, a landmark for conversational privacy.
Your private conversations are yours—and they should not become collateral in a dispute over online content access.
The primary document in the chat-logs privacy fight: OpenAI's CISO publicly framing litigation discovery as a user-privacy invasion, which anchored the subsequent debate over who actually controls conversational data.
If we don't protect the right holders, and if every citizen is able to either deepfake or copy the arts and the works of people, you take the livelihood away from the artistic community.
Covers Denmark's novel move to give individuals copyright in their own likeness and its push to spread the model across the EU — including critics' worry that propertizing the body sets its own troubling precedents.