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David Cuny https://www.pgmusic.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showprofile&User=15953Brought up an interesting point regarding the use of AI voices. Elvis Act will become law starting July 1. The ELVIS Act "prohibits people from using AI to mimic a person’s voice without their permission, and violations can be criminally enforced as Class A misdemeanors. The law also authorizes civil action against any person who violates this law." What's your thoughts on this?
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question is ... How is this different from a Elvis impersonator singing on a record? Or the thousands of Tribute Bands who are touring the country making money on artists work many without permission from the artists.
How is this different from using Real Tracks instead of Real Musicians?
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I assume the difference would be that AI would sample Elvis’s voice to create a song. Different than an impersonator or I suppose. 🤷♂️
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It's probable (and logical) that voices will be treated similar to physical likenesses. You can't use a photo of Elvis without permission (there are exceptions) and so...you can't use his voice. Am not aware of the conditions impacting impersonators and tribute bands. But the BiaB artists have been paid, and if you have purchased BiaB, you have a license to use what the artists have contributed, royalty free.
But I also understand how tricky this is. If I purchase vocal lessons from Elvis (ha!) and end up singing similarly to him, that's probably ok. But if AI is fed the (purchased) Elvis catalog and produces a vocal facsimile...not ok? Hmmm.
All I know is...a LOT of lawyers are going to make bank on this topic.
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All I know is...a LOT of lawyers are going to make bank on this topic. Yes, Yes, and Yes.
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But what if you sampled a voice from a very good Elvis Impersonator, with his permission? And especially if you paid for the samples in one way or another?
AI is going to be a legal playground before the rules get settled down.
I'm glad I make my living playing music to a live audience. That seems safe for at least a few more years.
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The issue with making regulations of any sort is that they are difficult and, in some cases, impossible to enforce. How will it be proven that AI was the tool that was used to create the voice?
There will be people who will do what ever they want regardless of the legality.
Whether the regulations are enforceable also depends on how wide spread the violations are.
It also depends on what the rewards are for breaking these laws.
These new laws may in fact be useful to protect the likes of Taylor Swift, perhaps. It is unlikely that they will ever affect personally the vast majority of musicians. Whose voice is so valuable that it is worth going to court over?
This attempt to control technology by laws and regulations will fail in the case of people who are not subject to the enforcement.
Of course, we will continue to make laws and regulations and not because they are for our protection but because that are a business enterprise in and of themselves.
This AI cat is already out of the bag and will take more than regulations to control it.
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Just so you can read the actual law, here it is. If this law will stand up in court remaines to be seen.
It has been said by the government of Tennessee that it is not the intent for this law to effect cover bands.
The law itself is does not exclude that possibility and that is one of the possible untended consequences. Not everyone is in favor of this law as it is written. That fact will likely also wind up in court.
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HOUSE BILL 2091
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AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 39, Chapter 14, Part 1 and Title 47, relative to the protection of personal rights.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1101, is amended by deleting "Personal Rights Protection Act of 1984" and substituting "Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2024".
SECTION 2. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1102(4), is amended by inserting "individual," before "firm,".
SECTION 3. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1102, is amended by adding the following as a new subdivision:
( ) "Voice" means a sound in a medium that is readily identifiable and attributable to a particular individual, regardless of whether the sound contains the actual voice or a simulation of the voice of the individual;
SECTION 4. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1103, is amended by deleting subsection (a) and substituting:
(a) Every individual has a property right in the use of that individual's name, photograph, voice, or likeness in any medium in any manner.
SECTION 5. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1104, is amended by deleting subdivision (b)(2) and substituting:
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(A) The exclusive right to commercial exploitation of the property rights is terminated by proof of the non-use of the name, photograph, voice, or likeness of
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an individual for commercial purposes by an executor, assignee, heir, or devisee to the use for a period of two (2) years subsequent to the initial period of ten (10) years following the individual's death.
(B) For purposes of subdivision (b)(2)(A), "use" includes the commercial availability of a sound recording or audiovisual work in which the individual's name, photograph, voice, or likeness is readily identifiable.
SECTION 6. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1105, is amended by deleting subsection (a) and substituting:
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(1) Any person who knowingly uses or infringes upon the use of an individual's name, photograph, voice, or likeness in any medium, in any manner directed to any person other than such individual, for purposes of advertising products, merchandise, goods, or services, or for purposes of fundraising, solicitation of donations, purchases of products, merchandise, goods, or services, without such individual's prior consent, or, in the case of a minor, the prior consent of such minor's parent or legal guardian, or in the case of a deceased individual, the consent of the executor or administrator, heirs, or devisees of such deceased individual, is liable to a civil action.
(2) A person is liable to a civil action if the person publishes, performs, distributes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to the public an individual's voice or likeness, with knowledge that use of the voice or likeness was not authorized by the individual or, in the case of a minor, the minor's parent or legal guardian, or in the case of a deceased individual, the executor or administrator, heirs, or devisees of such deceased individual.
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(3) A person is liable to a civil action if the person distributes, transmits, or otherwise makes available an algorithm, software, tool, or other technology, service, or device, the primary purpose or function of which is the production of an individual's photograph, voice, or likeness without authorization from the individual or, in the case of a minor, the minor's parent or legal guardian, or in the case of a deceased individual, the executor or administrator, heirs, or devisees of such deceased individual.
SECTION 7. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1106(a), is amended by deleting "photograph, or likeness" and substituting "photograph, voice, or likeness".
SECTION 8. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1106, is amended by inserting the following as a new subsection:
(f) Where a person has entered into a contract for an individual's exclusive personal services as a recording artist or an exclusive license to distribute sound recordings that capture an individual's audio performances, an action to enforce the rights set forth in this part may be brought by the person or the individual.
SECTION 9. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1107, is amended by deleting "photograph, or likeness" wherever it appears and substituting "photograph, voice, or likeness".
SECTION 10. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1107(a), is amended by deleting "account" and inserting "account, to the extent protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution".
SECTION 11. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 47-25-1107(c), is amended by deleting "had knowledge of the unauthorized use" and substituting "had knowledge or reasonably should have known of the unauthorized use".
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SECTION 12. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 39-14-152(g), is amended by deleting "Personal Rights Protection Act of 1984" and substituting "Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2024".
SECTION 13. This act takes effect July 1, 2024, the public welfare requiring it.
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This is an interesting discussion and I thank everybody for their contribution.
Can a voice be copyrighted? Or trademark?
If so does it ever expire? Will Elvis's voice at one time in the future become public domain?
Do we have to put disclaimers on our releases such as: AI : Elvis not really singing
The AI company that seems to be on the leading edge of celebrity voices is Lalals.com a German based company. They have 100s of celebrity voices and growing more each day.
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Personally (as if that matters to the legal system) I don't think you should be able to copyright a person's voice.
On the other hand, if you use it to pretend Elvis or whoever is singing the song, it's fraud, and that shouldn't be allowed.
I think if AI generates the vocals (or whatever) on the song, the vocal credit should simply go to the AI App.
And example would be if the song is called “Future Rock”, the credit would read “vocals by ____ using samples of Elvis Presley's voice” where _____ is replaced by the AI app.
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Can a voice be copyrighted? Or trademark? A voice cannot be copyrighted, but it can be trademarked. See: https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/voiceover-usage-rights-explained-76226/However, I suspect that AI voices will run afoul of copyright laws. Imagine that you had a recording Elvis singing a song. You then took the words from the recording, re-arranged them, pitch shifted and time stretched them, and released the result as a new song. That would be a copyright infringement. Even though you transformed the original song into a new song, you were still using the copyrighted performance of Elvis. AI companies believe they can get around the copyright infringement by saying the because the AI "learns" the vocal style, they are not copying the original performance. But how the data is stored and transformed is irrelevant. The AI has literally been trained to construct an audio signal that resembles Elvis' voice within a certain margin of error. The fact that that the neural network can create a credible imitation of Elvis demonstrates that audio data has been encoded into the network - even if it's difficult to point to exactly where it is, or how the network uses it. If so does it ever expire? Will Elvis's voice at one time in the future become public domain? The copyright of a performance will eventually expire, and the recording will be in the public domain. However, a trademark will not expire if it is in continued use. Do we have to put disclaimers on our releases such as: AI : Elvis not really singing According to the ELVIS law, unless you have rights to the vocals, you won't be able to use them at all. The AI company that seems to be on the leading edge of celebrity voices is Lalals.com a German based company. They have 100s of celebrity voices and growing more each day. As I mentioned in my original post, that they are using celebrity's names and likenesses to promote their service. That is enough to run them afoul with trademark issues. With the upcoming ELVIS Act, it will be illegal for companies to use unauthorized AI voices - at least in Tennessee.
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A single note copied and used as a sample, even reversed, is a copyright infringement.
Ask those rappers who were successfully sued for doing that very thing a while back.
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Why in Gods name would we need someting like this?
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I hope they never release this. This would be a very dangerous tool for politicians! However I would have a ball with it 
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I hope they never release this. This would be a very dangerous tool for politicians! However I would have a ball with it There is probably already an app that does deep fakes for politicians. With samples to fake voice, too.
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I hope they never release this. This would be a very dangerous tool for politicians! However I would have a ball with it There is probably already an app that does deep fakes for politicians. With samples to fake voice, too. Notes, I think most politicians are deep fakes 
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Is this law only valid in the US?
How could you enforce it if the server producing the AI was on Christmas Island, say.
Can one country now legislate for the rest of the world?
I guess it's a copyright thing so if France for example didn't have this law, then writing a new Edith Piaf song would be ok.
Just my thoughts as usual but it sounds like the technology has shown existing laws to be out of date where AI is concerned.
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I hope they never release this. This would be a very dangerous tool for politicians! However I would have a ball with it There is probably already an app that does deep fakes for politicians. With samples to fake voice, too. Notes, I think most politicians are deep fakes Definitely fakes, but some are pretty shallow
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And, if you are looking for more, the 2026 49-PAK (for $49) includes an impressive collection of 20 bonus RealTracks, featuring exciting and inspiring additions to add to your RealTracks library. You'll get new country-rhythm guitar styles from PG Music favorites Johnny Hiland and Brent Mason, along with modern-pop grooves that capture today’s radio-ready sound! There are also new indie-folk styles with guitar, bass, 6-string bass used as a high-chording instrument, acoustic guitar, and banjo. Plus, dedicated "cymbal fills" RealDrums provide an added layer that work very well with low-key folky styles with other percussion.
The 2026 49-PAK is loaded with other great new add-ons as well. Learn more about the 2026 49-PAK!
2026 Free Bonus PAK & 49-PAK for Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac®!
With your version 2026 for Mac Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, Audiophile Edition or PlusPAK purchase, we'll include a Bonus PAK full of great new Add-ons for FREE! Or upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for only $49 to receive even more NEW Add-ons including 20 additional RealTracks!
These PAKs are loaded with additional add-ons to supercharge your Band-in-a-Box®!
This Free Bonus PAK includes:
- The 2026 RealCombos Booster PAK:
-For Pro customers, this includes 27 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For MegaPAK customers, this includes 25 new RealTracks and 23 new RealStyles.
-For UltraPAK customers, this includes 12 new RealStyles.
- MIDI Styles Set 92: Look Ma! More MIDI 15: Latin Jazz
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 46: Piano & Organ
- Instrumental Studies Set 24: Groovin' Blues Soloing
- Artist Performance Set 19: Songs with Vocals 9
- Playable RealTracks Set 5
- RealDrums Stems Set 9: Cool Brushes
- SynthMaster Sounds Set 1 (with audio demos)
- iOS Android Band-in-a-Box® App
Looking for more great add-ons, then upgrade to the 2026 49-PAK for just $49 and you'll get:
- 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums with 20 RealStyle.
- FLAC Files (lossless audio files) for the 20 Bonus Unreleased RealTracks and RealDrums
- MIDI Styles Set 93: Look Ma! More MIDI 16: SynthMaster
- MIDI SuperTracks Set 47: More SynthMaster
- Instrumental Studies 25 - Soul Jazz Guitar Soloing
- Artist Performance Set 20: Songs with Vocals 10
- RealDrums Stems Set 10: Groovin' Sticks
- SynthMaster Sounds & Styles Set 2 (sounds & styles with audio demos)
Learn more about the Bonus PAK and 49-PAK for Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac®!
XPro & Xtra Styles PAK Sets On Sale Now - Until May 15, 2026!
All of our XPro Styles PAKs and Xtra Styles PAKs are on sale until May 15th, 2026!
It's the perfect time to expand your Band-in-a-Box® style library with XPro and Xtra Styles PAKs. These additional styles for Band-in-a-Box® offer a wide range of genres designed to fit seamlessly into your projects. Each style is professionally arranged and mixed, helping enhance your songs while saving you time.
What are XPro Styles and Xtra Styles PAKs?
XPro Styles PAKs are styles that work with any version (Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition) of Band-in-a-Box® 2025 (or higher). XPro Styles PAKS 1-10 includes 1,000 styles!
Xtra Styles PAKs are styles that work with the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box® 2025 (or higher). Xtra Styles PAKs 1-21 includes 3,700 styles (and 35 MIDI styles)!
The XPro & Xtra Styles PAKs are not included in any Band-in-a-Box® package.
The XPro Styles PAKs 1-10 are available for only $29 ea (reg. $49 ea), or get them all in the XPro Styles PAK Bundle for only $149 (reg. $299)! Listen to demos and order now! For Mac or for Windows.
The Xtra Styles PAKs 1-21 are available for only $29 ea (reg. $49 ea), or get them all in the Xtra Styles PAK Bundle for only $199 (reg. $349)! Listen to demos and order now! For Mac or for Windows.
Note: XPro Styles PAKs require Band-in-a-Box® 2025 or higher and are compatible with ANY package, including the Pro, MegaPAK, UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, and Audiophile Edition.
The Xtra Styles require the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition of Band-in-a-Box®. (Xtra Styles PAK 19 requires the 2025 or higher UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition. They will not work with the Pro or MegaPAK version as they require the RealTracks included in the UltraPAK, UltraPAK+, or Audiophile Edition.
Supercharge your Band-in-a-Box today with XPro Styles PAKs and Xtra Styles PAK Sets!
Band-in-a-Box 2026 for Mac Videos
With the release of Band-in-a-Box® 2026 for Mac, we’re rolling out a collection of brand-new videos on our YouTube channel. We’ll keep this forum post updated so you can easily find all the latest videos in one convenient spot.
Whether you're exploring new features, checking out the latest RealTracks or Style PAKs, this is your go-to guide for Band-in-a-Box® 2026.
Check out this forum post for "One Stop Shopping" of our Band-in-a-Box® 2026 Mac Videos!
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