Korein Tillery’s Chad Bell Discusses Right-of-Publicity and Isbell v. Suno Class Action Lawsuit at University of Georgia’s Artist Rights Symposium

On October 19, 2026, Korein Tillery attorney Chad Bell appeared at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business Fifth Artist Rights Symposium.

Since 2018, the Symposium (which is co-hosted by the Artist Rights Institute) has fostered discussion between artists and participants within the music and recording industries on the status of intellectual property in relation to new technologies, including file sharing, streaming, digitization, and artificial intelligence.

At the Symposium, Mr. Bell joined other panelists to discuss generative artificial intelligence (GenAI and the firm’s recently filed class action lawsuit on behalf of acclaimed musician Jason Isbell and other music artists accusing AI music-generation platform Suno, inc. of misappropriating and commercially exploiting their right-of-publicity and biometric data. The lawsuit seeks damages and injunctive relief on behalf of the proposed class, and is currently being litigated in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by Korein Tillery attorneys George Zelcs, Audrey Austin, Marc Wallenstein, and Lucy Prather.

Mr. Bell and his fellow panelists also addressed ways music artists can protect their name, image, likeness, and biometric data from being used and exploited by GenAI models, and how to protect those rights when negotiating contracts.

A full write-up of the Symposium can be found at this link: UGA Artist Rights Symposium - Terry College of Business