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AB 2602 was approved and filed as Chapter 259 of 2024, adding Labor Code section 927. For new digital-replica performances fixed on or after January 1, 2025, relevant contractual provisions are unenforceable when specified conditions coincide, including replacing the person’s work, insufficiently described uses, and absence of required representation.
What changed
AB 2602 was approved and filed as Chapter 259 of 2024, adding Labor Code section 927. For new digital-replica performances fixed on or after January 1, 2025, relevant contractual provisions are unenforceable when specified conditions coincide, including replacing the person’s work, insufficiently described uses, and absence of required representation.
Records signing and filing date. January 1, 2025 is the statutory applicability threshold for fixation of new performances, not a verified enforcement event. There is an exception where uses are consistent with the contract and the fundamental character of the original performance. Only specific provisions are affected, not the whole contract; authorized sampling and remixing have definitional exclusions.
Editorial research question
Editorial interpretation: institutional context in which union demands for digital-replica contract safeguards enter state law. Enforceability of contractual provisions differs from a blanket ban on generated content.
This is an editorial interpretation or question, separate from factual statements.
Evidence & sources
AB 2602 was approved and filed as Chapter 259 of 2024, adding Labor Code section 927. For new digital-replica performances fixed on or after January 1, 2025, relevant contractual provisions are unenforceable when specified conditions coincide, including replacing the person’s work, insufficiently described uses, and absence of required representation.
SRC-0209Lines 39–74: Chapter 259, approval and filing date, and full Labor Code section 927.
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SRC-0210Lines 23–35: signing and union account of advocacy; line 31: participation by Joely Fisher and Jodi Long.
California Legislative Information · EN · 2024-09-17
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