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> If your voice sounded close to any other major VA, no one would touch you for fear of their liability going through the roof. That seems to be a leap. It's
by ajross 2y ago
> If your voice sounded close to any other major VA, no one would touch you for fear of their liability going through the roof.
That seems to be a leap. It's not at all hard to define a bright line between two people that merely sound the same and inappropriate appropriation. Lots of folks have deep voices similar to James Earl Jones, but if you hire one of them to voice a helmetted character named Tarf Later you'd expect to lose a suit under this statue, right?
The case at hand isn't that Sky sounds like Johansson in the abstract (whose actual voice isn't even all that unique or notable), it's that explicitly evocative of her role in Her, and most damningly that they clearly tried to hire her to do it.