A 8611 — Clarifies the right of publicity
Congress · introduced 2025-05-22
Clarifies the right of publicity including the definitions of who and what qualifies as a digital replica; provides guidance as to digital replicas that do not violate an individual or deceased individual's right to publicity; expands the statute of limitations for an action brought for violating an individual's right to publicity.
Latest action: 2026-01-07 — IN_ASSEMBLY_COMM
Sponsors
Action timeline
- · assembly — REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
- · assembly — REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
Text versions
Connected on the graph
Inbound (2)
| date | from | type | amount | role | source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-22 | Tony Simone | sponsor_of_bill | — | sponsor | sponsorship |
| 2025-05-22 | Catalina Cruz | cosponsor_of_bill | — | cosponsor | sponsorship |
Who matters
Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.
| # | Member | Role | Speeches | Voted | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tony Simone (—, state_lower NY-75) | sponsor | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2 | Catalina Cruz (—, state_lower NY-39) | cosponsor | 0 | — | 1 |
Predicted vote
Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.
0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)
By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no
Activity
Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.
- 2025-05-22 · cosponsored by Catalina Cruz (cosponsor) · sponsorship
- 2025-05-22 · sponsored by Tony Simone (sponsor) · sponsorship