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Act 159 of 2025 (HB 1071), AI-Generated Replicas Amendment to Publicity Rights Act

Ark. Code Ann. §§ 4-75-1103, 4-75-1110, 4-75-1112

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In force.

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 6 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Do not reproduce, generate, or use an individual's photograph, likeness, or voice, including an artificial-intelligence-generated reproduction or simulation, without authorization under the Frank Broyles Publicity Rights Protection Act of 2016.
  • If you operate a system or network that hosts content from others, your exemption ends once you have actual knowledge that a photograph, voice, or likeness on your system violates the Act.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureNo

What it reaches

Obligation class

Prohibition

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Act 159 amends the Frank Broyles Publicity Rights Protection Act's definitions to reach an AI-generated photograph, likeness, or voice, and narrows the safe harbor for a system or network provider. It imposes no duty to create, keep, or produce a log or record of any kind; a provider's safe harbor turns on actual knowledge of a violation, not on a kept record.

Kind
None
As of
21 September 2026

Who checks it

Audit expectation

none

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Act 159 amends the Frank Broyles Publicity Rights Protection Act of 2016 so that the Act's existing definitions of "likeness" and "photograph" expressly include a reproduction generated through artificial intelligence, and adds a new definition of "voice" that reaches a simulation of an individual's voice, including an AI-generated simulation, whether or not it contains the person's actual voice.

It also narrows a safe harbor for a system or network provider, so that a provider loses that protection once it has actual knowledge that a photograph, voice, or likeness on its system violates the Act. Approved February 25, 2025.

When LexLint raises it

  • generates_content
  • processes_voice

Read the law

session law text, Arkansas General Assembly

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