Suspicious Minds: Protecting Tennessee Artists from Generative AI

Effective July 1, 2024, a revolutionary new law will protect Tennessee artists and musicians from unethical uses of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). The unprecedented Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (“ELVIS”) Act greatly expands the reach of Tennessee’s Protection of Personal Rights law by creating an enforceable property right in a person’s “name, photograph, voice, or likeness.” The Tennessee General Assembly passed the ELVIS Act unanimously in response to the growing threat of AI in…
By: Dickinson Wright