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

Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-25-1101 et seq. (Pub. Ch. 588, 2024)

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In force since 1 July 2024.

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 6 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Do not use, publish, perform, distribute, or transmit an individual's voice, photograph, or likeness, including an AI-simulated voice, without the individual's consent.
  • Do not distribute, transmit, or otherwise make available an algorithm, software, tool, or other technology whose primary purpose is producing a particular identifiable individual's unauthorized voice, photograph, or likeness replica.

If you get it wrong

Private right of actionYes

What it reaches

Obligation class

Prohibition

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Amends the Personal Rights Protection Act of 1984, renamed the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act, to add voice to the property right an individual holds in their name, photograph, and likeness, defining voice as a sound readily identifiable and attributable to a particular individual whether or not the sound is the person's actual voice or a simulation of it.

A person who publishes, performs, distributes, or transmits an individual's voice or likeness knowing it was not authorized is liable to a civil action, and the same liability reaches a person who distributes, transmits, or otherwise makes available an algorithm, software, tool, or other technology, service, or device whose primary purpose or function is producing a particular identifiable individual's photograph, voice, or likeness, knowing that distributing it was not authorized.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

official signed act text, Public Chapter 588 (2024), Tennessee Secretary of State

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