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Voices are not copyrighted and do not require "authorization". If my nephew wants to go around sounding like Goofy all the time (as he does) he is free to do s

by thrill 3y ago

Voices are not copyrighted and do not require "authorization". If my nephew wants to go around sounding like Goofy all the time (as he does) he is free to do so, though it may cost him invitations to dinner - it'd be the same if he was using Attenborough's voice.

leobg 3y ago
Interesting take. The counter argument is that the basic idea behind copyright is that the expression of personality through the way you formulate ideas is a part of “you“. That somebody would start talking like you, or looking like you, and enrich himself by essentially cloning you just has historically, never been a problem serious enough to create legislation. Just as there was probably no copyright law before Gutenberg.