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>All SJ has to do is show that they wanted her and plant the idea that they may have been thinking of her when they hired the other actor. The end results sound
by dingnuts 2y ago
>All SJ has to do is show that they wanted her and plant the idea that they may have been thinking of her when they hired the other actor. The end results sounds enough like her that I think OpenAI is going to have a very rough time in court.
Wait, are you alleging that an individual has a right to faithful imitations of their voice, as well as to their actual performance?
So if I do a really good Morgan Freeman impression and I want to use that voice for a voiceover that I make, and I intentionally do an impression, he should have the right to tell me I cannot use the voiceover that I made, because I intended it to sound like Mr Freeman? Even if there is no intent to mislead and it's rightfully credited etc (not like the Tom Waits situation in TFA where the ad was intended to deceive)
What stops that from extending to parody? Should Sarah Palin be able to sue Tina Fey for the impression on SNL all those years ago?
If all it boils down to is
>The end results sounds enough like her
this starts to sound like celebrities with sufficient popularity and clout can trademark likenesses that are sufficiently similar to them. So is the voice actor who happens to sound like Scarlett Johnansson but is insufficiently famous not allowed to use their own voice in recordings because it might sound too much like the famous person?
Absurd absurd absurd
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- glitz 2y agoContext is king here. Nobody would confuse Tina Fey for Sarah Palin, while it would be possible for someone hearing the "Sky" voice combined with the "Her" aside to assume it was SJ providing the voice. Again it would be up to a jury to decide, but there are plenty of previous cases decided in the artists favor that any sane lawyer would be uneasy taking it in front of a jury.
- gs17 2y ago> Nobody would confuse Tina Fey for Sarah Palin Surprisingly many people think "I can see Russia from my house" is a thing the real Palin said.
- qarl 2y agoWell, she actually did say "They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska." So, it's pretty close to a real thing Palin said.
- gs17 2y agoBut that part is true (it's just "Russia" and "Alaska" aren't the mainlands of either), the Diomede Islands are close enough together that you can see the Russian one from the US one.