What does the Tennessee ELVIS Act text say about voice, including simulated voice and voice-cloning tools, and how does the adopted amendment differ from the bill as introduced?
The ELVIS Act amendment defines protected voice to include a simulation, creates liability for knowingly making an unauthorised voice/likeness available and for distributing tools whose primary purpose is producing a particular, identifiable individual's voice or likeness (narrowed from the introduced text's 'an individual's ... without authorization'), lists First Amendment fair uses, and lets exclusive recording-artist contract holders sue.
The ELVIS Act amendment defines protected voice to include a simulation, creates liability for knowingly making an unauthorised voice/likeness available and for distributing tools whose primary purpose is producing a particular, identifiable individual's voice or likeness (narrowed from the introduced text's 'an individual's ... without authorization'), lists First Amendment fair uses, and lets exclusive recording-artist contract holders sue.
Curator qualifications: Texts read 2026-10-22; not legal advice; no jurisdictional analysis. Enacted-law text not read beyond the adopted amendment and bill pages; post-mortem term details per producer.
Limitations: Texts read 2026-10-22; not legal advice; no jurisdictional analysis.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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- [sourced_fact] The ELVIS Act amendment defines protected voice to include a simulation, creates liability for knowingly making an unauthorised voice/likeness available and for distributing tools whose primary purpose is producing a particular, identifiable individual's voice or likeness (narrowed from the introduced text's 'an individual's ... without authorization'), lists First Amendment fair uses, and lets exclusive recording-artist contract holders sue. · locator: Tennessee HA0578 (House Amendment No. 1 to HB2091), sections 3, 6, 8, 10 (bytes equal pin); Tennessee HB2091 as introduced (bytes equal pin) source
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