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  • Voice actors win round one against an AI voice company in New York: what Lehrman v. Lovo means for singers

    A federal judge in Manhattan has let two voice actors pursue New York publicity, consumer-protection and contract claims against Lovo, the AI voice company they say cloned them, while dismissing most of their trademark and copyright claims. This was a ruling on a motion to dismiss, not a win at trial. Its reasoning still matters to singers: in this court's view, copyright in a recording doesn't protect the voice on it, but New York's civil rights law does.

    Artist rightsvia US District Court for the Southern District of New York

  • Randy Travis got his voice back with AI. The harder question is who else had to say yes

    A model trained on Randy Travis's own vocal stems turned another singer's demo into "Where That Came From", his first new song in over a decade. Eleven months later Travis backed the NO FAKES Act against voice theft. The line between the two is consent and control, and the Travis case shows it has to cover the human singer underneath as well as the star on the label.

    AIvia U.S. Government Publishing Office

  • Two answers to AI voices: Céline Dion disowns the fakes, while Sevdaliza licenses hers for a 50% split

    Céline Dion's team has warned fans that "unsanctioned" AI recordings using her voice and name are circulating on streaming services. In 2023 Sevdaliza went the other way, opening an AI model of her voice, Dahlia, to anyone on the Myvox platform for half the royalties. Both are legitimate choices, and each depends on consent being written down somewhere a platform can act on it.

    AIvia Dazed

  • The Beatles' "Now and Then" won a Grammy with AI, but the AI didn't make Lennon's voice

    "Now and Then" won Best Rock Performance at the 2025 Grammys. The machine learning behind it separated John Lennon's real vocal from a late-1970s home demo; it did not generate a voice. That distinction is what kept the record inside the Recording Academy's human-authorship rules, and it is the line the industry should be arguing about instead of "AI or not".

    AIvia Recording Academy (GRAMMY.com)

  • FKA twigs built a digital twin of herself, then told the Senate artists must control it

    At a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on the draft NO FAKES Act on 30 April 2024, FKA twigs said she had spent a year building an AI version of herself that speaks in her voice, and argued the line between a useful tool and a theft is whether the artist controls it. Her label's CEO, sitting beside her, argued the new right should be transferable. That tension is the real story.

    Artist rightsvia Tech Policy Press

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