With questionable copyright claim, Jay-Z orders deepfake parodies off YouTube

Post by sneak » Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 10:32 PM UTC

randylahey wrote: post #27

basch wrote: post #2

https://www.descript.com/ and Lyrebird prevent people from making copies of voices that arent their own, but it looks like that cat is out of the bag. Abuse potential notwithstanding, and ignoring the complete distortion of "reality" coming soon, I'm extremely excited for this technology to become more mainstream. Being able to edit audio and video, like you edit a word document. Record a conversation for a couple ho…

A YouTuber (carykh) made a video where he explains an algorithm he made to automatically process lecture videos by speeding up, condensing and removing parts of the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ8orIurGxw

Post by anon73044 » Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 10:44 PM UTC

rhema wrote: post #20

Lots of examples of their synthesis here: https://lbry.tv/@VocalSynthesis:2?page=1 . I've been thinking about the deepfakes as a kind of computational thinking aid. We can all simulate reading text from the voice of random celebrities in our mind's eye. How different is the ability to bring that imagination into reality?

Post by chippy » Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 10:48 PM UTC

anon73044 wrote: post #43

rhema wrote: post #20

Lots of examples of their synthesis here: https://lbry.tv/@VocalSynthesis:2?page=1 . I've been thinking about the deepfakes as a kind of computational thinking aid. We can all simulate reading text from the voice of random celebrities in our mind's eye. How different is the ability to bring that imagination into reality?

What with Jeff Bridges in Tron and Peter Cushing in Rogue One, I'd suspect in about a decade or so we'll begin seeing Disney movies with an almost full cast of deceased CG actors, complete with their own voice.

Post by bawolff » Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 10:53 PM UTC

acomjean wrote: post #5

Bette Midler sued ford back in the day (1988) for hiring an impersonator to sing on an ad and won. (Of course it helped that Ford asked her to sing first) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midler_v._Ford_Motor_Co . "The appellate court ruled that the voice of someone famous as a singer is distinctive to their person and image and therefore, as a part of their identity, it is unlawful to imitate their voice without expres…

Post by elliekelly » Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 10:56 PM UTC

aaronax wrote: post #39

ex3ndr wrote: post #3

Isn't parodies are explicitly excluded from requiring to hold copyright to an object of a parody?

I don't remember the specific arguments that he laid out, but after watching this (42 minute, worthwhile) video by Tom Scott about copyright my understanding changed. Now I assume that most things don't fit some narrow requirements regarding what parodies are allowed and what aren't. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU