{"id":61270,"date":"2024-01-10T17:09:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/?p=61270"},"modified":"2024-01-10T17:09:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T22:09:37","slug":"tenneessee-bill-protects-musicians-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/statescoop.com\/tenneessee-bill-protects-musicians-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tennessee legislation would protect musicians from AI voice clones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee unveiled a new bill on Wednesday that would extend protections for songwriters, performers and music industry professionals from misuses of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security, or ELVIS, Act is the first legislation of its kind in the United States, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/governor\/news\/2024\/1\/10\/tennessee-first-in-the-nation-to-address-ai-impact-on-music-industry\">press release<\/a> from Lee\u2019s office. The new bills \u2014 introduced by state Sen. Jack Johnson and state Rep. William Lamberth \u2014 aims to protect the state\u2019s music industry professionals from generative AI cloning models that enable unauthorized fake works to be created in the image and voice of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom Beale Street to Broadway, to Bristol and beyond, Tennessee is known for our rich artistic heritage that tells the story of our great state,\u201d Lee said in the release. \u201cAs the technology landscape evolves with artificial intelligence, we\u2019re proud to lead the nation in proposing legal protection for our best-in-class artists and songwriters.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main change the ELVIS Act would make to Tennessee\u2019s existing law, called the Personal Rights Protection Act, is the addition of \u201cvoice\u201d as a protected medium. It already protects &#8220;name, photograph or likeness.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the release, the music industry in Tennessee supports more than 60,000 jobs in the state and is responsible for contributing $5.8 billion to the U.S.\u2019s gross domestic product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe emergence of generative artificial intelligence resulted in fake recordings that are not authorized by the artist and is wrong, period,\u201d read a statement from the Nashville Songwriters Association International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The association also expressed its gratitude to Lee and the bill&#8217;s sponsors for introducing the legislation, which it says makes \u201cit crystal clear that unauthorized AI-generated fake recordings are subject to legal action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security, or ELVIS, Act would add &#8220;voice&#8221; as a new category under the state&#8217;s Personal Rights Protection Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":61275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"disable_grayscale_images":true,"grayscale_contrast":0,"sponsored_content":false,"display_author_bio":true,"story_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4677,24394],"tags":[861,5272,5405,24321,24517,24518],"people":[],"special-report":[],"authors":[24251],"class_list":["post-61270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","category-ai","tag-tennessee","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-gov-bill-lee","tag-artificial-intelligence-policy","tag-musicians","tag-ai-misuse","author-skylar-rispens"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.5 (Yoast SEO v24.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Tennessee legislation would protect musicians from AI voice clones | StateScoop<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security, or ELVIS, Act would add &quot;voice&quot; 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