According to , Tennessee governor Bill Lee signed the ELVIS Act into law on Thursday (March 21), which enhances the state's old right of publicity law that had explicit protections for one's 'name, photograph, or likeness' to include voice.
Speaking about the track's eligibility for music's highest accolade, a Grammy, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. told the New York Times: 'It's absolutely eligible because it was written by a human.' However, soon after he did a U-turn, explaining that because 'the vocals were not cleared by the label or the artist, and the song is not commercially available,' it was not, in fact, eligible for a Grammy.
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