Tennessee ELVIS Act (Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security Act)

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kind: law
target: voice-and-likeness
jurisdiction: US, Tennessee
mechanism: Extends Tennessee right-of-publicity to AI voice clones and digital replicas; cloning a person's voice or likeness without consent is barred, with developer and distributor liability when a tool's primary purpose is producing a particular identifiable individual's voice or likeness.
status: in-effect
owns: First US state law protecting performers and musicians from unauthorized AI voice cloning; bars producing a sound recording or audiovisual work that clones a voice or likeness without consent.
source: Tennessee General Assembly, HB 2091
notes: Codified at Tenn. Code Ann. 47-25-1101 et seq. Signed March 21, 2024; effective July 1, 2024. Passed House 93-0 and Senate 30-0. Post-mortem protections extend to estates for ten years.

kind: law
target: voice-and-likeness
jurisdiction: US, Tennessee
mechanism: Extends Tennessee right-of-publicity to AI voice clones and digital replicas; cloning a person's voice or likeness without consent is barred, with developer and distributor liability when a tool's primary purpose is producing a particular identifiable individual's voice or likeness.
status: in-effect
owns: First US state law protecting performers and musicians from unauthorized AI voice cloning; bars producing a sound recording or audiovisual work that clones a voice or likeness without consent.
source: Tennessee General Assembly, HB 2091
notes: Codified at Tenn. Code Ann. 47-25-1101 et seq. Signed March 21, 2024; effective July 1, 2024. Passed House 93-0 and Senate 30-0. Post-mortem protections extend to estates for ten years.