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That seems like an impossible thing to do - how would you define "your voice" and how much would it have to be changed to no longer be considered "your voice"? What would happen between two people that sound similar, or even identical, to our imperfect human senses?

Court precedence. Like pretty much everything else judges would have to define the lines over decades through court cases. I'm not sure if it should go that way. I don't like the idea that someone like Disney could hire a voice actor once and then steal their voice forever. And it feels like we are headed down that path. On the flip-side if you could trademark your voice, someone like Disney could buy up a bunch of t…

>someone like Disney could buy up a bunch of trademarks and use them to sue somewhat similar voices. Kinda feels like a lose lose scenario.

That's only if you're using trademarked voices to begin with though, right?

The reason I think trademark needs to exists is because with voice, like an image or wording, comes a value or expectation of value that can be invested into it. Like Bourdain's voice.

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If car salespeople do it, it should be fine. Is that the bar?

It would seem that the closer one gets to recreating the look or sound of someone else, the less acceptable it is.

Or, more simply, is it an attempt at deceiving people into believing it’s the actual individual being impersonated?

Impersonating someone like Lincoln in a car commercial is one thing, but it’s another is someone presented an impersonation as their actual voice in a documentary.

It’s also complicated by the fact that the AI voice is trained on his likeness and dubious as if the reproduction is a new creation or something else. Similar to the debate about GitHub Copilot.

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