Nashville ELVIS Act

TN Governor Bill Lee, Artists and members of the Recording Industry announce new legislation to protect Singers, Songwriters and Recording Artists from unauthorized Artificial Intelligence appropriation.

Members of SAG-AFTRA Nashville, along with representatives of all the major entertainment labor unions and performer rights organizations, were on hand for Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s announcement of new state legislation to protect Singers, Songwriters and Recording Artists from abuses linked to Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Called the “ELVIS Act” – Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security – the legislation would update Tennessee’s current Protection of Personal Rights law. Tennessee already has one of the most comprehensive Right of Publicity laws, largely in response to unauthorized usage of the image of the late Elvis Presley. If this legislation is approved, those protections would now include a performer’s voice and likeness, making Tennessee the first state in the nation to preserve individual voice, image and likeness against irresponsible and unethical AI in the form of deep fakes and audio cloning. The Act will now go to the full Tennessee legislature for ratification.

For more info: https://www.sagaftra.org/