consequence.net: Signed at a ceremony hosted at a honky tonk in Nashville’s famous Broadway district, the ELVIS Act was supported by the initiative, The Human Artistry Campaign, and has a number of prominent supporters, including country stars Luke Bryan and Chris Janson (who were both at the signing), Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr., a bipartisan coalition of Tennessee lawmakers, and more.
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Tennessee is one of the most underrated cultural performance hubs in our country. I definitely thought that the first law passed to protect artists against AI would be in New York or California so it was a surprise to me that the first law protecting artists from AI was passed in Tennessee. It did not surprise me that Tennessee already has a law protecting artists from impersonators with the popularity of Elvis impersonators however the news I have seen about AI has been focused more on artists such as Taylor Swift or other popular pop singers as opposed to country singers. I really hope that nation wide laws are put in place to protect artists against AI. I have read articles talking about how the US government is thinking about creating AI protection laws but with the speed of bureaucracy changes and creations of laws can take years if not decades and at that pace this legislation may come out too late to protect artists against AI.
This is great that they took this initiative to protect more artists from incorrect/copyrighted usages of AI. Often when I think of AI in the arts I consider film, theater, and visual art, and don’t really think about music much, though when I took my class last semester on AI and the arts there was a classmate of mine who made a presentation on the intersections of AI and music. The music industry is so confusingly fascinating to me, and I often wonder things about copyright for music, and how sampling is in play there, and now there is AI involved as well! I wonder if any artists will use AI in their own work, like manipulating themselves similar to artistic uses of autotune? Who knows what will occur. This is so cool that they did it at a festival in Tennessee though–unfortunately I don’t know much about Tennessee's music scene, though it seems to be thriving.
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