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> It would be interesting if they offered "voice packages" either online or offline so you could just pass text through it and the output would be a Morgan Free
by loudmax 10y ago
> It would be interesting if they offered "voice packages" either online or offline so you could just pass text through it and the output would be a Morgan Freeman narration.
On that note, should Morgan Freeman be allowed to copyright the sound of his own voice?
My immediate inclination is No, you shouldn't be allowed to copyright a voice timbre because it opens up so many weird possibilities for making even more of a mess of copyright law. For example, what happens if two people happen to have the same voice, or at least, close enough so that Adobe's software can't distinguish them.
But there is a reasonable case to be made that Morgan Freeman's voice belongs to him. If some company profits from having a reproduction of Morgan Freeman's voice in one of their products, maybe they should pay him.
- thefalcon 10y agoMorgan Freeman's likeness - including his voice - is already protected legally, no?
- bnj 10y agoIf you're using "audio with substantial similarity" to the voice of Morgan Freeman, but using it to create entirely new works... doesn't that create new and interesting collisions between rights of publicity, fair use, transformative works...?