Tennessee ELVIS Act takes effect, protecting voice against AI cloning
Concerns Tennessee ELVIS Act
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In brief
Tennessee ELVIS Act takes effect, protecting voice against AI cloning. Recorded for Tennessee (United States) on 1 July 2024. It concerns the Tennessee ELVIS Act. The Act added voice to the right of publicity and created liability for tools primarily designed to produce unauthorised voice or likeness. Afterwards the instrument is recorded as in force.
- Date
- 1 July 2024
- Jurisdiction
- Tennessee (United States)
- Instrument
- Tennessee ELVIS Act
- Impact
- Routine
- Status afterwards
- In force
- Official source
- Tennessee General Assembly
What changed?
The Act added voice to the right of publicity and created liability for tools primarily designed to produce unauthorised voice or likeness.
What does it mean in practice?
Providers of voice-cloning tools and users of synthetic voices need authorisation for identifiable individuals in Tennessee.
Official source
HB 2091 (ELVIS Act)Tennessee General Assembly · 21 Mar 2024
Cite this record
AIPolicyTracker (2026). “Tennessee ELVIS Act takes effect, protecting voice against AI cloning” [AIPT-CHG-0064, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-CHG-0064 (accessed 12 November 2026). Data licensed CC BY 4.0.
Permanent id AIPT-CHG-0064: it never changes or gets reused, and its address keeps working if this page moves.
Cite the official text alongside it: HB 2091 (ELVIS Act), Tennessee General Assembly, https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/113/Bill/HB2091.pdf.
BibTeX
@misc{aipolicytracker2026_tennesseeelvisacttakesef,
author = {{AIPolicyTracker}},
title = {{Tennessee ELVIS Act takes effect, protecting voice against AI cloning}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-07-01-tennessee-elvis-act-effective}},
url = {https://aipolicytracker.org/changes/2024-07-01-tennessee-elvis-act-effective},
urldate = {2026-11-12},
note = {Data licensed CC BY 4.0. Accessed 12 November 2026}
}
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