Intellectual Property laws and bills in New York

Every bill in the New York Legislature that falls inside the Intellectual Property Tracker's scope, with where each one currently stands.

25

Bills in Scope

4

Past Committee

16 September 2026

Most Recent Action

Intellectual Property bills in New York

2Enacted

2Past committee

2Active in committee

19Introduced or inactive

25 bills in scope

Active in committee

2

A 11712Relates to student-athlete contractsIn committee
A 11717Relates to compensation received by minor student-athletes from contracts for the use of a student-athlete's name, image and likenessIn committee

Introduced or inactive

19

A 11683Relates to audiovisual advertisements and synthetic performer disclosures and materially deceptive media disclosures in certain political communicationsIn committeeS 3990Relates to establishing the offense of false pretenseIn committeeA 11270Enacts the "advancing rights for talent, independence, services and tenure (ARTIST) act"In committeeA 10981Prohibits non-compete agreements for certain medical professionalsIn committeeA 5008Relates to the ability of government agencies in New York to claim copyright protectionIn committeeA 10964Relates to student-athlete name, image, and likeness compensationIn committeeA 10110Relates to a personal right of publicityIn committeeA 1361Relates to restrictive covenants between employers and employees with respect to agreements not to competeIn committeeA 235Relates to unauthorized depictions of public officials generated by artificial intelligenceIn committeeA 3924Relates to privacy rights involving digitizationIn committeeA 395Prohibits bad faith assertions of copyright infringementIn committeeA 7295Relates to expanding the right of publicityIn committeeA 7717Increases the trademark registration and renewal feeIn committeeA 7718Provides for remedies for trademark dilutionIn committeeA 8105Creates the uniform trade secrets actIn committeeA 8611Clarifies the right of publicityIn committeeS 5156Establishes the "It's Your Data Act"In committeeS 6616Increases the remedy for trademark counterfeitingIn committeeS 8721Establishes privacy and publicity rights for likenesses altered using artificial intelligenceIn committee

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What's In Scope

How Intellectual Property bills are selected

In scope are the rights states genuinely own: digital replicas and the right of publicity, name, image and likeness including student athletes, restrictive covenants and talent mobility, and the treatment of training data and synthetic performances where a state creates a right rather than describing a federal one.

Scope is defined by a written topic profile that every bill is measured against. The profiles are drafted by a model and validated by retrieval measurement against a judged set of bills, not reviewed by an attorney. LawSignals is a research tool and does not provide legal advice.

New York is one of Intellectual Property's jurisdictions

The tracker follows this subject everywhere it is legislated, and publishes a monthly issue on what moved across all of them.