Mexico's Chamber of Deputies has approved a bill penalising the unauthorised commercial use of official logos, symbols and documents belonging to public institutions, after a debate of almost ten hours, Mexico News Daily reports.
The measure, proposed by President Claudia Sheinbaum and already passed by the Senate, was approved by 281 votes to 83. It allows fines of up to millions of pesos and prison terms of one to five years for using an institution's identity to deceive people for illegal ends. Online platforms will have to remove content when they receive misuse complaints.
Opposition deputies call it an "anti-meme" law and say vague wording could be used against parody, cartoons and political criticism. Supporters from the governing Morena party say it targets piracy, fraud and AI impersonation of state bodies, and that the "commercial scale" test protects satire.
Source: Mexico News Daily
