Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI) sent a letter On Tuesday, October 29, to the U.S. Copyright Office asking for an update on the Office’s multi-part report on the impact of artificial inteliigence (AI) on copyright law, which Steil said is no longer on track to be published by its stated target dates. The Committee on House Administration has statutory oversight authority over the Library of Congress and thus the U.S. Copyright Office. Part I of the Office’s report was published in July and recommended legislation to create a right for individuals to control digital replicas of their voice and likeness. On the same day that the Office issued the report, a group of senators introduced a bill—the “NO FAKES Act”—that would establish a federal property right for every individual in their own voice and likeness. It was not in response to or conjunction with the Office’s report, however.
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