Tennessee became the first U.S. state to protect musicians from AI that could clone and manipulate their voices, creating deepfakes, without permission.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act into law on Thursday, adding the unauthorized use of a person’s voice to Tennessee’s list of protected rights.
The ELVIS Act ensures that “no one will steal the voices of Tennessee artists,” Lee stated at an event announcing the bill in January.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee. Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images
Deepfakes are synthetic media that replicate the voices, images or other aspects of a person and use those features in new contexts. With the rapid development
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