Franz Rogowski, “who plays a key role in Bird, British director Andrea Arnold’s contender for the top Palme d’Or prize, said this weekend that the proliferation of chaperones and intimacy...
The UNC system and the School of the Arts will pay 65 alumni a total of about $12.5 million for abuses that lasted “during most of the school’s history.” – Raleigh News & Observer (Yahoo...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/unc-school-arts-settles-lawsuit-170000739.html
The researcher wrote, “Over the past years, safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products.” – The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/17/24159095/openai-jan-leike-superalignment-sam-altman-ai-safety
Here’s an explanation of the origins of the arts branch of the Games, a timeline history, and a preview of some of what will be seen in Paris through this summer. – Euronews
A brochure issued in July 2021 on the OCI website says that if the status is cancelled for any of the reasons stated, the person would also be blacklisted, preventing their entry into India. The...
While there have been brief bursts of attention to the issue before, France had been notably resistant to the movement. In 2018, Catherine Deneuve and others published an open letter in Le Monde...
https://apnews.com/article/metoo-cannes-judith-godreche-8015d6dc14efd6c00912f8dd824f9985#new_tab
The performances that work best for both haptic tours and live audio descriptions are dance and theater productions that offer a mix of visual and auditory elements. – San Francisco Classical ...
Today’s “executive butlers,” who service the ultra-wealthy (who aren’t just old-line nobility anymore) at England’s grand country houses, are a cross between chief housekeeper, maître...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/style/executive-butlers-country-houses.html#new_tab
“(Two octogenarians) entered the British Library in London on Friday morning and ‘smashed the glass enclosure that surrounds the Magna Carta.’ After this, the pair glued themselves to the ...
She leaves the foundation, which she started in 2000 with then-husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, three years after the pair announced their divorce. Bill is giving her $12.5 billion f...
“People wept in the street when the magnificent Mackintosh building was nearly destroyed by two fires. So why, 10 years on and despite overwhelming support for restoration, is there still no p...
On Bluesky, the author wrote, “Calling the cops on peaceful protesters is a shameful act. … I give all my best wishes and congratulations to the class of ’24 and pray for the safety of the...
https://lithub.com/colson-whitehead-has-withdrawn-as-commencement-speaker-who-will-be-next/
“The starship model and its celebrated return is now the subject of a lawsuit alleging fraud, negligence and deceptive trade practice, highlighting the enduring value of memorabilia from the i...
“Rumours have been widespread … of the existence of a secret list of 10 men in the industry, including leading actors and directors, who have been abusive to women. The names, described as �...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/11/secret-list-abusers-cannes-film-festival
“Some chanted ‘Eurovision, united by genocide,’ reflecting the strength of feeling over the humanitarian toll of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, which was triggered by the deadly Ham...
Coffee houses are one of the earliest examples of ‘Third Places,’ a term popularized by urban sociologist Raymond Oldenberg, who described them as “public places on neutral ground where ...
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/04/26/are-commercial-third-places-a-dying-breed/
Were once-sepulchral towns reinvigorated by newcomers eager to put down roots? Were the new residents integrating into small-town life, or was an influx of new blood bringing unintended side eff...
https://www.afar.com/magazine/sicily-sold-homes-for-one-euro-what-happened-to-them
Maybe this is a time to look for something else in art, to look at art that resonates with this moment on the precipice of authoritarianism, and to learn from it. What can be gleaned by reconsid...
For years, the numbers of fully-employed faculty have fallen as universities use poorly-paid adjunct professors instead. Yet tuition prices keep soaring. Why? Because the number of paid administ...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/no-one-knows-what-universities-are-for/ar-BB1m2mbD#new_tab
“San Francisco philanthropist Maria Manetti Shrem has promised UC Davis the largest gift ever to arts at the school — $20 million to create the multifaceted ‘Maria Manetti Shrem Arts Renai...
Arts and cultural organisations that are achieving the strongest audience growth right now are not necessarily those pouring the most money into their branding and marketing campaigns. – ArtsH...
“The law, prompted by the frustration a legislator felt at not being able to buy tickets to Swift’s 2023 concert in Minneapolis, will require ticket sellers (for live events) to disclose all...
Professors and students have a right to express themselves on campuses but universities have restricted when and how they can do so, with limitations on things like amplified sound outside class...
“To explore how organizations’ bottom line and working capital have fared over the last few years, we analyzed data from FY 2019 to 2023 collected from 233 organizations through the Cultural...
https://culturaldata.org/national-trends-2024/bottom-line-and-working-capital/#new_tab
Oh, no, there’s no butting out on Nextdoor, only butting in. Somebody posted the other day about the “slow moving vehicle following the school bus every morning.” Alarming! Turned out it w...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/05/nextdoor-suspicious-neighbors/
The faculty “protested Saturday night outside the UCLA Hammer Museum’s celebrity-heavy gala, calling for amnesty to be granted to pro-Palestinian students arrested on campus this week and de...
“Since Mr Modi first came to power in 2014, the Hindi film industry has produced several films referencing government policies. But in the past four years, experts say a lot them have begun to...
The chaos is “just a symptom of wider uncertainty and a quiet but growing panic in the feature-length documentary world.” – CBC
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/hot-docs-documentary-industry-1.7191083
“There’s less support for training, and government-funded apprenticeships are very hard to access in the UK. They’re not set up for our sector – which is ironic, as apprenticeships were ...
It’s all too “easy to imagine the potential carnage: scammers targeting parents by using their children’s voice to ask for money, a nefarious October surprise from a dirty political tricks...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/elevenlabs-is-building-an-army-of-voice-clones/ar-AA1o8bG9
“For decades, beginning with the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, the Olympics included competitions in painting, sculpture, architecture, music and literature — a ‘pentathlon of the Muses,’ ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/us/paris-olympics-arts-medals.html#new_tab
“Don’t worry, this sudden cardiac arrest is not in vein. The Giant Heart will reopen in November as the centerpiece of a new, permanent exhibit about the human body, … one of six (such) ex...
In New York, the neighborhood restaurant doesn’t have much room for neighbors anymore… Reservations are scooped up fourteen days in advance by residents of SoHo, Aspen, and East Hampton, who...
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/why-you-cant-get-a-restaurant-reservation
Unfortunately, it’s not only large-scale music festivals that are copping severe losses, as many other vital players within the performing arts are battling rising costs in a funding environme...
“On average, organizations retained their full-time staff through pandemic shutdowns. Average staff size has grown over the last two years (2022 to 2023) through the addition of permanent part...
https://culturaldata.org/national-trends-2024/staffing-analysis/#new_tab
Last year, 125 grassroots music venues closed permanently and 1,293 pubs shut their doors across Britain. According to the Night Time Industries Association, more than 3,000 pubs, clubs and ...
I don’t know whether the Sphere is the future of live music—it’s very expensive, both to build and attend, and the venue’s path to profitability isn’t clear at all. But I do know thi...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/sphere-is-the-mind-killer/ar-AA1nJebc
“Many are wondering what the revenue landscape for arts and culture will look like after (governmental relief funds run out). Is there a revenue engine emerging that might fill this gap? To an...
https://culturaldata.org/national-trends-2024/funding-sources/#new_tab
That new name is The Royal Ballet and Opera. “‘The Royal Opera House’, as the company was previously known, did not make clear that the Royal Ballet and the Royal Opera companies were part...
We have some indications of how the arts and culture will fare under each president because, for the first time, we have two candidates who have already been president. – Berkshire Eagle
https://theberkshireedge.com/biden-or-trump-and-the-nonprofit-sector-part-1-the-arts/
C. Pam Zhang and Safiya Noble, who were scheduled to speak at the USC Rossier ceremony, have withdrawn. “Zhang and Noble condemned the college administration for refusing to engage in meaningf...
https://lithub.com/c-pam-zhang-and-safiya-noble-have-withdrawn-as-usc-commencement-speakers/
“Can an organization that sees itself as above politics, that sees itself straightforwardly as a support system for an open society, be allowed to exist anymore? For the protesting writers, th...
It’s going fine, just fine: “Meta’s automated ad platform has been blowing through budgets and failing to deliver sales. Small businesses have seen their ad dollars get wiped out and waste...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/28/24141585/meta-ai-advantage-plus-automated-ad-glitch-cpm
One curator says, “If this project has taught me anything it is about the need to educate and to introduce learning around how to preserve and protect archival materials. … On a community le...
One creator: “I don’t think that banning an app that many people have used to raise funds for each other, bring awareness to different issues, and hold people accountable … can even be arg...
“What made this (latest) meeting different from most during the past year or so was that it came a month after Disney and DeSantis’s board appointees reached a deal to end their state court ...
https://apnews.com/article/disney-world-desantis-florida-a7aeecb2da8157738699137767adcc0a#new_tab
Leaders from across the theatre sector have outlined their vision for a reformed Arts Council England, warning that an unchanged funding body could stoke competition for cash in its current “b...
https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/fit-for-next-generation-theatre-leaders-on-vision-for-aces-future
Among the encouraging stats, participation in the arts has reached its highest level since the survey began in 2005, up to 54%. Young people, deaf and disabled, Māori and Pacific peoples part...
https://thebigidea.nz/stories/report-nzers-relationship-with-the-arts-revealed
By the late 1960s, bankers increasingly saw credit cards, which combined innovative information technology with access to affluent consumer markets, as the road to the future – as the key to i...
https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-america-become-the-nation-of-credit-cards
The €5 charge is meant to discourage overcrowding and pay for extra upkeep costs. Yet, says one activist, “You can’t impose an entrance fee to a city; all they’re doing is transforming i...
Why it was introduced, on what dates will it be charged, who does and doesn’t have to pay, where does and doesn’t the fee apply, how it will be implemented, how to buy a ticket, and what wil...
Why the massive investment? At a time when Disney faces revenue challenges due to cord cutting, streaming wars and a slower film box office, its theme parks are a bright — and reliable — spo...
Daniel Singh, executive director of Metro Arts Commission, has been on medical leave for two months, claiming that racism he faces has affected his health. While he has some support in Nashville...
Our findings show that the vast majority of “primary occupation” freelancers (those who spend more than 50% of their time on freelancing) earn less than the minimum wage in the UK – typica...
Modern education concentrates on teaching subjects, leaving the method of thinking, arguing, and expressing one’s conclusions to be picked up by the scholar as he goes along; mediæval educati...
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-original-error-of-educationalists/
“The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences. To understand why, you must understand publishing...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/it-s-the-end-of-the-web-as-we-know-it/ar-AA1nt2as#new_tab
he is considered the author of the “selection, coordination, and arrangement of text generated by artificial intelligence.” This means no one can copy the book without permission, but the ac...
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-copyright-office-loosens-up-a-little-on-ai/
At a GOP hearing in December, Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch told representatives that he didn’t think having children at drag shows was “appropriate.” Since then, one drag performer h...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/04/20/smithsonian-drag-events-lonnie-bunch/
The actors improvised the script and shot most of the footage. “The film was bought by Artisan Entertainment for $1 million, after which the actors were paid a $300,000 buyout of their ownersh...
https://www.vulture.com/article/blair-witch-project-actors-residuals.html
“The recent move against TikTok misses the larger point: Americans’ sources of information have declined in quality, and the problem goes beyond any one social media platform.” – Fast Co...
Colorado Public Radio has a vision to be the state’s top, free news source. Getting there has created some controversy. – WestWord
https://www.westword.com/news/colorado-public-radio-ceo-on-layoffs-new-building-vic-vela-20419810
“Because as soon as Estonia doesn’t have its own culture, the country will become fair game for Russian propaganda and Russian aggression. … All they have is their culture. And if culture ...
https://van-magazine.com/mag/juri-reinvere-russia-estonia/#new_tab
Government regulation can help and hinder the creative sector, just as much as it does agriculture and housing. – The Big Idea
https://thebigidea.nz/stories/paul-goldsmith-its-time-for-an-arts-creative-sector-strategy
As one cast member puts it, “After a couple of months … the fairy dust fades away, and you see your friends and people you really care about hurting and burnt out and not able to pay their r...
The city has 360,000 residents, only 40,000 of whom live in the historic center, but receives 11 million tourists each year. Cecilie Hollberg, director of the Galleria dell’ Accademia (where M...
Even a hard-nosed economic perspective suggests that arts provision warrants support, rather than a freeze. By the government’s own estimates, the creative industries contribute around £126 ...
The plan wouldn’t expand Disney’s footprint in tourism-dependent Anaheim but would help it add rides and entertainment by letting the company relocate parking to a new multi-story structure ...
To regular people, raising the price of something precisely when we need it the most is the definition of predatory behavior. To an economist, it is the height of rationality: a signal to the ma...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/surge-pricing-fees-economy/678078/
The Republic of Benin — one of the two long-and-narrow countries wedged between Ghana and Nigeria — plans to spend €250 million to put culture alongside agriculture as the pillars of its e...
The agency is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against the Ticketmaster parent in the coming weeks that would allege the nation’s biggest concert promoter has leveraged its dominance in ...
“People who think they are left-wing but put a line between who gets to talk and who should shut up are right-wing. … People who think they are progressive but force us to talk about what we...
https://jacobin.com/2024/04/edouard-louis-identity-private-property/#new_tab
“A lot of young people are moving away from conventional ideas of education and the workforce to pursuing things we genuinely enjoy in life. “We know what’s best for us – we’re willing...
A common vacation itinerary includes three or four days at Disney World and one or two days at Universal. If Universal can now persuade families to spend one more day at its parks instead of at ...
That’s because Scottish filmmakers, writers, and artists are feeling vulnerable “following the closure of a film project, a book festival and an art magazine within days of each other.” �...
Birmingham is a bellwether for the UK. Nothing “could be more emblematic of the way that Britain currently devalues life: when we only focus on our most basic needs, dismissing leisure, art, l...
The abuse child actors dealt with destroyed their childhoods and families – and people watching it are grappling with their childhood memories as well. Then there’s the apparent negligence o...
https://slate.com/podcasts/icymi/2024/04/internets-reaction-to-quiet-on-set
“Believe me, when they get the LGBTQ books out of there, then it’ll be the books on the Civil War because white people are portrayed in a poor light. And then it’ll be books on religions t...
“Journalists are not very good marketers. They do a story they are excited about and think most people in the addressable audience will want to read it — maybe 60%. No, that’s way high. Mo...
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/nonprofit-news-average-audience-size-better-metrics/
Buildings and facilities, mostly. There’s the Grand, the $1 billion apartment/hotel/retail complex, designed by Frank Gehry, which opened across the street from (Gehry’s) Disney Hall in 2022...
“We didn’t notice it at the beginning because we were locked inside. And then when we came out, everything had changed radically,” says Antonio Vásquez, a Oaxacan novelist whose works tou...
Is there a way for the government to support art without corrupting it? And if not, how can we ensure that art still remains vital to our public life? – Fusion
https://www.fusionaier.org/post/art-and-politics-a-permanent-dissonance
“Today, we don’t just reveal a stunning new design—we come together to celebrate the fact that the largest cultural infrastructure project currently underway in Canada is truly and uniquel...
https://www.archpaper.com/2024/04/calgary-kpmb-hindle-tawaw-architecture-collective-arts-commons/
“Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, signaling a mighty leap forward in robots’ and artificial intelligence’s ability to imitate human interaction, we’ve craved a new generati...
In 2004 Italy adopted a law allowing museums to request payment for commercial reproduction of “cultural properties.” So the Italian government and the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice (w...
The pandemic and the shift toward remote working have hit Los Angeles as hard as they have other cities. That includes performing and visual arts, whose attendance numbers are (mostly) not back ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/arts/downtown-los-angeles-culture.html#new_tab
Audio describers need to locate the gaps and silences in a show, so that their descriptions are woven around music and dialogue. It is a fine art timing the description to avoid distracting the ...
https://www.artshub.com.au/news/features/the-art-of-audio-description-2714336/
Artist Kirsha Kaechele, who created the installation at Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (and is married to its founder/funder), argues that the experience of men denied entry is part of t...
It started in 2022 with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Newberry Library; it has continued with, among others, the Field Museum, Museum of Science and Industry, the Museum of Contemporary A...
With an eye on protecting themselves from one mishap or another, more and more artists have set up business entities. – The Observer
https://observer.com/2024/04/artists-forming-limited-liability-corporations/
“When it turned out that my offense amounted to “exclusionary non-verbal facial cues” (it was never clear if these were the student’s words or the administrator’s), I was relieved, a l...
Third places have “eight features including neutrality, leveling qualities, accommodation, a low profile, and a sense of home. In short, it’s a place that is welcoming, not fancy, free of so...
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2024/04/third-places-and-american-libraries.html
Their offerings are aimed at a general audience and are a particular favourite of young families and those after an eye-catching selfie backdrop. What happens to our engagement with a painting w...
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/immersive-art-van-gogh-frameless-lightroom
Jackson’s production company “believes Robson and Safechuck’s actual target is a series of nude photographs of Jackson included in the records,” or so they claim. – Los Angeles Times (...
One musician says, “Every time I go over there, I’m losing money. … We’re never making money, it’s not a possibility. I’m lucky enough that I’m signed now and I’ve made two album...
“Festival organizers say they are still recouping losses from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns while they contend with inflation. … ‘The sponsors and the grants are not increasing at the same p...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/why-are-so-many-canadian-festivals-struggling-or-cancelling-1.7159111
After an outcry, Facebook apologized for blocking links to the independent Kansas Reflector – then expanded the crackdown to other news sites. A spokesperson blamed “a mistaken security issu...
The city was a beacon of artistic freedom. Then came October 7. Now, “a climate of fear and recrimination has put Berlin’s status as an international cultural capital in greater hazard than ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/arts/design/berlin-israel-gaza-art-scene.html
The Magic Kingdom expansion is one part of a $60 billion investment Disney has said it’s planning for its parks, cruises and experiences over the next decade. – CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/04/travel/disney-expansion-magic-kingdom-10-year-investment/index.html
“Nashville’s Finance Director, Kevin Crumbo, … has not given a timeline for the payments. … Until the 2023 grants are paid, Metro Arts (says it’s) putting the upcoming grant review cyc...
https://wpln.org/post/when-will-metro-arts-grant-recipients-be-paid-details-remain-murky/#new_tab
“Ministers will cut funding for performing and creative arts courses at English universities next year, which sector leaders say will further damage the country’s cultural industries. The cu...
The contemporary fixation on extolling “freedom” as a cornerstone of artistic expression stems from a flattened understanding of history. Those for whom this is the jam and butter often reve...
Britain’s institutions are now beset by wokery, and nowhere is this more apparent than in Britain’s museums. – The Critic
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-conservatives-can-still-reform-our-cultural-institutions/
“The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts can’t build its $175 million third phase until Orange County and the city of Orlando provide most of the funding, said arts center President ...
Just as more baby boomers are stepping down from the top spots, fewer people want to take their place, and those who are interested — especially people of color — are moving into leadership ...
https://www.philanthropy.com/article/fewer-people-want-to-lead-nonprofits-whats-the-answer
Launched in 2016, Italy’s 18App was the oldest such program in Europe, and all 18-year-olds were eligible. Replacing 18App are the Carta Cultura, with a household income ceiling of €35,000, ...
What has happened to Britain’s supposedly world-beating universities is partly the old post-Brexit story of the young suffering the consequences of something they overwhelmingly didn’t vote ...
The measure approved by voters, Prop. 28, explicitly said that the money authorized must go for additional arts education programs. That means not using the funds for existing programs and reall...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/powerful-unions-allege-schools-misusing-100059169.html#new_tab
Voice Engine can recreate a person’s voice from a 15-second recording. If you upload a recording of yourself and a paragraph of text, it can read the text using a synthetic voice that sounds l...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/technology/openai-voice-engine.html
Among 400 others, “the list of stars who signed the letter includes actor Elliot Page, Great Big Sea frontman Alan Doyle, actress Elisha Cuthbert, folk music legend Neil Young, recent Grammy w...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/canadian-artists-open-letter-anti-trans-policies-1.7160219
But make no mistake: They’re coming at, and for, public resources as well. “Sometimes destruction from the inside via library boards is aided in part by city or county politics and sometimes...
“OpenAI suggested several steps that it thinks could limit the risks around tools like these, including phasing out voice-based authentication to access bank accounts, policies to protect the ...
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/29/24115701/openai-voice-generation-ai-model
“The venue said the cancellation followed “recent publicity” after a letter from the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester (JRCGM).” – BBC
Disney on Wednesday reached a settlement in Florida and will no longer seek to retain its self-governance of Walt Disney World, a stunning turn in a battle with DeSantis that stretched more than...
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/27/disney-world-desantis-fight-00149320
Note that all of these centerings would be about things most consider good, and even crucial, but the question would be why the university, as a general rule, should make any of those things the...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/opinion/six-musical-antiracism-universities.html
Perhaps the frisson of cleverness (I know where that’s from!), or the flip-side cringe of ignorance (I should know where that’s from!), is enough to spur you to buy a book, the way a search...
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/books/review/literary-allusions.html
The 99-acre West Kowloon Cultural District was given a start-up fund (called an “endowment” there) of HK$21.6bn (US$2.8bn) by the enclave’s government in 2008. That fund is projected to ru...
“Allocations for fiscal year 2025 total $93.9 million, funding 669 different arts and culture projects or organizations. Just $32 million of that is allocated for grants overseen by the Florid...
The Creative Act is three books in one, really: a how-to for aspiring or faltering artists, an opening-up of Rubin’s own bag of tricks as a producer/cosmic facilitator, and an account of the ...
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/03/rick-rubin-the-creative-act-book-review/677865/
The state’s percent-for-art law, the oldest in the US (1967), requires 1% of the construction or renovation costs of state buildings to go to Hawaii’s arts agency. A bill from the state Hous...
The Tories have been weaponising the arts for their own purposes in the culture wars – an incredibly cynical and damaging thing to do, needlessly pulling arts organisations into enervating, de...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/19/arts-funding-austerity-collapse-tories-labour
They “are noticing in their best workers right now is the ability to recognise where opportunities and/ or learnings can be found in otherwise challenging situations, and use those perspective...
Many Berliners are growing estranged from the cultural institutions our taxes fund. Hard as it is for someone like me to admit, economic hardships and the dwindling number of unclaimed spaces ha...
https://hyperallergic.com/879485/something-is-rotten-in-germany-arts-sector/
“Surplus funding of $3 million from Metro’s FY23 budget, on top of $2 million that was already promised, will be directed to Metro Arts to pay off a ‘mounting deficit’ and fully fund gra...
https://nashvillebanner.com/2024/03/22/metro-arts-funding-deficit-fulfilled/#new_tab
The conflict in the Middle East is showing Germany in a new light, highlighting fissures in society and the arts world that until now had been easier to ignore. – The Guardian
The province’s contribution to revamp Calgary’s live theatre and arts hub will be spread out over seven years, with the majority of funds distributed in the next four-year budget cycle. – ...
https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/arts-commons-olympic-plaza-103-million-alberta-government
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed off on legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence....
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/tennessee-state-protect-musicians-artists-ai-108361137