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Good luck owning a voice in an infinite house of voices.
by visarga 3y ago
Good luck owning a voice in an infinite house of voices.
- __loam 3y agoIt's illegal to use someone's likeness without their knowledge in a lot of places.
- AndrewGaspar 3y agoHeadline actors are inevitably going to be (already are?) selling the rights to their voice and likeness, setting up perpetual revenue streams for their estates, and in the next few years the parameters of those rights will almost assuredly be in every contract.
- Avshalom 3y agoIt might be inevitable but they're currently on strike in part to avoid selling those likeness rights.
- sumtechguy 3y agoThat could be amended in an explicit contract or quit the union. Say you are very sick/old/whatever/dontcare and need some money and have not had a gig in 10 years? I am will to bet we see a few of those soon. Then soon after the rise of the 'scanned' actor with no such contract but one that gives away those likenesses. They will be bought in packs like game assets.
- Teever 3y agoWhat's the timeline on that sort of thing? Like I'm sure that some relative of Elvis Presley was paid for the Elvis movie that was recently released, but is anyone going to get paid for those new Napoleon movie/miniseries?
- phone8675309 3y ago> is anyone going to get paid for those new Napoleon movie/miniseries At some point things enter the public domain, and facts aren't copyrightable.
- Teever 3y agoThat is correct, we are talking about when things enter the public domain, specifically the likeness of an individual.
- ramesh31 3y ago>It's illegal to use someone's likeness without their knowledge in a lot of places. It's illegal to use their likeness claiming that it is actually them. I fail to see how AI voices are legally any different at all than using a human impersonator.
- thrill 3y agoThey're not.