The Recording Industry Association of America has named Lalals, an AI voice-changing site it says is run by Lalals FZ-LLC in the United Arab Emirates, in its October 7, 2026 filing to the US Trade Representative's annual Notorious Markets review. The RIAA alleges the site lets users make a vocal sound like Taylor Swift, Drake and other stars without their consent.
The same 15-page submission, filed under docket USTR-2026-0529, revisits the usual suspects: stream-rippers like Y2mate and Savefrom, The Pirate Bay, and a long list of cyberlockers. What is new is the target. A process built to shame torrent indexes and counterfeit vinyl sellers is now being pointed at a voice clone.
What does the RIAA say about Lalals?
The Lalals entry sits under the filing's “Additional Issues” heading, next to the shadow library Anna's Archive, rather than in the main list of markets the RIAA asks USTR to include. TorrentFreak notes that the RIAA presents both as “additional” areas of concern, not official watchlist candidates. The RIAA writes that the site offers “the ability to change a vocal recording to sound like various sound recording artists, without their consent or authorization,” and lists Taylor Swift, Drake, Ariana Grande, Bruno Mars, Ed Sheeran, Lady Gaga, Chris Martin and Rihanna, “among many others.”
This infringes these artists' rights of publicity in their voice and likeness, as well as likely infringing our members' rights in the sound recordings used to train the vocal clone models.RIAA, Notorious Markets submission, October 7, 2026
Both claims are the RIAA's allegations; no court has ruled on them. The filing credits Lalals with 2.7 million visits in the past 12 months and a subscription model, and notes a US registrar (Spaceship) and a US host (Vercel). The Ring found no public response from Lalals as of October 19, 2026. Sites named in the review can file rebuttal comments with USTR until October 21.
Lalals' own homepage calls itself a set of “Pro-Grade AI audio tools,” advertises “3,000+ voices” for its voice changer and text-to-speech, and says “Join 3m users!” Its pricing page lists a free tier, Plus at $12.97 a month and Pro at $24.99 a month, and says paid plans include commercial rights, “allowing you to release your transformed vocals on platforms like Spotify, YouTube, TikTok, and more.”
Why put a voice clone on a piracy list?
The RIAA has been trying for three years. Its 2023 submission singled out Voicify.ai, and when USTR's report came out in January 2024 it said nothing about voice cloning, as Music Business Worldwide noted at the time. The RIAA's response then: “we urge a close look in the future at emerging piracy challenges presented by AI, including the widespread illegal use of copyrighted sound recordings and artist names, images, and likenesses to generate invasive and unlawful voice clones and deepfakes.”
The 2026 filing pushes the theme further. Even its entry on Mega, a cyberlocker, complains of “AI-related infringing content such as vocal models and cloned recordings.” Anna's Archive brings the scraping fight: the RIAA says the site announced on December 20, 2025 that it had downloaded 86 million music files from Spotify, and that the RIAA and Spotify won a $322 million default judgment against its unknown operators on April 14, 2026.
| Site | Type, per the RIAA | Visits, past 12 months |
|---|---|---|
| Lalals | AI voice changing and cloning | 2.7 million |
| Anna's Archive | Shadow library (Spotify scrape) | 154.6 million |
| ThePirateBay | BitTorrent index | 363 million |
| Mega | Cyberlocker | 1 billion |
| Savefrom | Stream-ripper | 1.36 billion |
By traffic, Lalals is a rounding error on this list. By ambition, it is the most important entry in it.
What can the Notorious Markets List actually do?
Not much on paper. USTR's own 2025 list says it “does not make findings of legal violations.” Its force is diplomatic: a public naming that trade officials can raise with the countries where a site operates. That list came out on March 3, 2026 and named 37 online and 32 physical markets; the 2026 review, whose comment deadline was October 7, has an issue focus on counterfeit “superfakes,” not AI.
The voice question is moving faster in lawmaking than in trade reports. Tennessee's ELVIS Act, signed March 21, 2024, added voice to the state's publicity protections, and Denmark is weighing Bill L 49 on AI voice clones. Labels are also working the takedown route, as with Sony's 260,000 deepfake removals.
Whether USTR names Lalals or not, the filing marks where the labels think the next fight is: not who copies the file, but who copies the singer. For artists, that is the consent fight over voice and likeness, now carried into trade policy. USTR's last two lists landed in January 2025 and March 2026, so the answer likely comes in early 2027.