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Publicity-rights

  • Tupac's estate v. Drake: the AI diss track that tested publicity rights for the dead

    Tupac Shakur's estate sent Drake a cease-and-desist over the AI-voiced "Taylor Made Freestyle" and he pulled the track from Instagram and X within days. He folded without a court testing the estate's claim, and under California law as it stood then, a song was exactly the kind of work the dead's publicity right exempted. California's AB 1836 has since closed much of that gap.

    Artist rightsvia California Senate Judiciary Committee

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