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webRelevant as an early concrete example of US state-level AI governance targeting a specific harm (voice cloning), illustrating how creative industry stakeholders are shaping AI deployment policy through legislation rather than federal action.
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Tennessee enacted the ELVIS Act (Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security) on March 21, 2024, becoming the first state to legally prohibit unauthorized AI replication of musicians' voices. The law, effective July 1, 2024, allows creators to sue for damages if their voice is replicated without consent. ASCAP frames this as a model for balancing AI innovation with creator rights.
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- •Tennessee became the first US state to ban unauthorized AI voice replication of music creators, with the ELVIS Act effective July 1, 2024.
- •Creators can sue for damages if their voice is replicated by AI without consent, establishing a legal remedy for a new form of IP infringement.
- •ASCAP's six AI principles (consent, compensation, credit, transparency, human-first, global consistency) guided advocacy for the legislation.
- •The law addresses generative AI tools trained on human-created music that can produce outputs competing with or displacing original creators.
- •The act received unanimous bipartisan legislative support, signaling broad political consensus on AI voice protection at the state level.
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ELVIS Act Signed Into Law in Tennessee To Protect Music Creators from AI Impersonation
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