Amid Objections from Industry Groups, California Advances California Journalism Preservation Act

• Amid objections from industry groups, California lawmakers are advancing the California Journalism Preservation Act (Assembly Bill 886), which would require online search engines and social media platform companies to compensate news outlets for linking to their content. The Senate Judiciary Committee in June considered the bill during a hearing, during which lawmakers noted the measure remains a “work in progress.”
• On July 2, 2024, the Assembly Judiciary Committee held a hearing to consider the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Systems Act (Senate Bill 1047), which would prohibit a developer from using a covered model commercially or publicly, or making a covered model or a covered model derivative available for commercial or public use, if there is an unreasonable risk that the covered model or covered model derivative can cause or enable a critical harm.
• Further, the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 2, 2024, held a hearing to consider a range of bills, including Senate Bill 1220, which would prohibit a state or local agency from using, or contracting with a call center that uses AI or automated decision systems (ADS) that would eliminate or automate core job functions of a worker.

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