New York A 10110: Relates to allowing for the disclosure of certain information to federal agencies for the trusted traveler program and official duties at ports of entry

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A10110 Summary:

BILL NOA10110 

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Amd §51, Civ Rts L

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Establishes a personal right of publicity; provides for the removal of unconsented material from websites by the attorney general.

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BILL NOA10110 

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02/02/2026referred to judiciary

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10110

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 2, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Judiciary

 AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to personal right of
 publicity

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 51 of the civil rights law, as amended by section 2
 2 of subpart A of part MM of chapter 58 of the laws of 2024, is amended to
 3 read as follows:
 4 § 51. Personal right of publicity. 1. Action for injunction and for
 5 damages. Any person whose name, portrait, picture, likeness or voice is
 6 used within this state for advertising purposes or for the purposes of
 7 trade or that is posted on a website generating advertisement revenue or
 8 other royalties or profit for the person posting or submitting such
 9 content without the written consent first obtained as above provided may
 10 maintain an equitable action in the supreme court of this state against
 11 the person, firm or corporation so using such person's name, portrait,
 12 picture, likeness or voice, to prevent and restrain the use thereof; and
 13 may also sue and recover damages for any injuries sustained by reason of
 14 such use and if the defendant shall have knowingly used such person's
 15 name, portrait, picture, likeness or voice in such manner as is forbid-
 16 den or declared to be unlawful by section fifty of this article, the
 17 jury, in its discretion, may award exemplary damages. But nothing
 18 contained in this article shall be so construed as to prevent any
 19 person, firm or corporation from selling or otherwise transferring any
 20 material containing such name, portrait, picture, likeness or voice in
 21 whatever medium to any user of such name, portrait, picture, likeness or
 22 voice, or to any third party for sale or transfer directly or indirectly
 23 to such a user, for use in a manner lawful under this article; nothing
 24 contained in this article shall be so construed as to prevent any
 25 person, firm or corporation, practicing the profession of photography,
 26 from exhibiting in or about their establishment specimens of the work of
 27 such establishment, unless the same is continued by such person, firm or
 28 corporation after written notice objecting thereto has been given by the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14664-01-6

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 1 person portrayed; and nothing contained in this article shall be so
 2 construed as to prevent any person, firm or corporation from using the
 3 name, portrait, picture, likeness or voice of any manufacturer or dealer
 4 in connection with the goods, wares and merchandise manufactured,
 5 produced or dealt in by such manufacturer or dealer which they have sold
 6 or disposed of with such name, portrait, picture, likeness or voice used
 7 in connection therewith; or from using the name, portrait, picture,
 8 likeness or voice of any author, composer or artist in connection with
 9 their literary, musical or artistic productions which they have sold or
 10 disposed of with such name, portrait, picture, likeness or voice used in
 11 connection therewith. Nothing contained in this section shall be
 12 construed to prohibit the copyright owner of a sound recording from
 13 disposing of, dealing in, licensing or selling that sound recording to
 14 any party, if the right to dispose of, deal in, license or sell such
 15 sound recording has been conferred by contract or other written document
 16 by such living person or the holder of such right. Nothing contained in
 17 the foregoing sentence shall be deem