Voice
Actual or simulated, if identifiable
The 2024 update is most often discussed as a voice rule. The older statute already covered name, photograph, and likeness. Voice is the piece that was a weaker fit.
What “voice” means here
Legal summaries of the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2024 describe voice as a sound in a medium that is readily identifiable and attributable to a particular individual. That can be the person’s actual voice or a simulation of it.
The test is recognition, not the recording chain. A clip does not have to contain the original vocal take if listeners can still tell whose voice it is meant to be.
Likeness and image sit beside it
The short title names likeness, voice, and image together. The statute amends Tennessee’s Personal Rights Protection Act of 1984, which already treated name, photograph, and likeness as protectable personal rights. The 2024 text keeps that frame and adds voice, including a clone.
A still, a video face, and a spoken line can all be in play if they stand in for a particular person without authorization.
What this page does not settle
It does not say how a court will treat a tribute act, a documentary, a licensed session singer, or a general-purpose model that can imitate many voices. Those are fact patterns. Read What it does for the consent and exception language, Debate for the arguments on both sides, and Artists & AI for named public statements.