The Wall Street Journal wrote about HLLI’s free speech victory in California over Gov. Newsom’s “deepfake” law.
Ted Frank, a lawyer with the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute who represented Kohls, said, “We hope California accepts this straightforward application of longstanding First Amendment precedent and will negotiate a permanent injunction.” The group is also bringing a similar challenge to restrictions in Minnesota, again on behalf of Kohls.
The California law makes an exception for AI-generated humor, requiring such content to have a disclaimer visible for its entire duration stating it was “manipulated for purposes of satire or parody.” Kohls’s lawsuit said the state requires the text of the disclaimer to be so large that the words wouldn’t have fit on the screen of his video.
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