- kind
- law
- target
- likeness
- jurisdiction
- US, California
- mechanism
- Amends Civil Code 1708.86 to give a depicted individual a civil cause of action against anyone who creates or discloses digitized sexually explicit material (AI-altered or substantially altered nude/sexual depictions) without consent, and extends liability to a person who knowingly facilitates or recklessly aids or abets such conduct, including operators of dedicated deepfake pornography services.
- status
- in-effect
- owns
- Civil, non-consensual-intimate-imagery cause of action targeting AI deepfake-porn services and facilitators specifically, distinct from tn-elvis-act's commercial voice/likeness right-of-publicity focus and from criminal-fraud statutes like Pennsylvania's.
- notes
- Signed and chaptered (Ch. 673, Statutes of 2025) October 13, 2025; effective January 1, 2026. Reported to increase maximum statutory damages to $50,000 for a non-malicious violation and $250,000 for a malicious one; figures taken from bill-analysis summaries, not independently re-verified against enrolled text. Predates the 2026-07-11 window; included as backfill.
