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Also Star Wars: This.
I don't find the idea of movies/music produced this way appealing at all. Rather see something recast (or new stories told with new characters) versus seeing this done for the sake of safe nostalgia sales.
Perhaps if JEJ feels it is time to step away from the character upon reflection, Disney might do some reflecting as well.
Star Wars: Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. Also Star Wars: This. I don't find the idea of movies/music produced this way appealing at all. Rather see something recast (or new stories told with new characters) versus seeing this done for the sake of safe nostalgia sales. Perhaps if JEJ feels it is time to step away from the character upon reflection, Disney might do some reflecting as well.
I wonder how much money was offered. Or even if Jones gets royalty/"performance" fees everytime a movie uses his voice. I imagine old actors would put that licensing agreement in their wills, and their kids and grandkids would get to get to enjoy the earnings.
That's the less interesting part IMO. The more interesting part is what happens when others make the same using public recordings... is this fair use?
Tom Waits and Bette Midler have won lawsuits against companies who used voice impersonators in their ads.
Interesting times.
Star Wars: Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. Also Star Wars: This. I don't find the idea of movies/music produced this way appealing at all. Rather see something recast (or new stories told with new characters) versus seeing this done for the sake of safe nostalgia sales. Perhaps if JEJ feels it is time to step away from the character upon reflection, Disney might do some reflecting as well.
History is the information residual form the past events onto various forms of recording, and projected into human brains, forming a collective residual image of the past that causes the nowadays events.
When history can be reshaped, the human collectives would lost its directional momentum because the causes are no longer entirely intact.
God bless us, when our children finally lost their roots...
In the near future, I imagine it'd be easy enough to take a snippet of audio and transfer a celebrity's voice to it, similar to what we can already do to images using StyleGAN or something similar.
Exciting times ahead!
I wonder how much money was offered. Or even if Jones gets royalty/"performance" fees everytime a movie uses his voice. I imagine old actors would put that licensing agreement in their wills, and their kids and grandkids would get to get to enjoy the earnings.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saki_Fujita
[3] https://getnews.jp/archives/255685
That might have been a poor choice financially for Fujita Saki given that the current estimated number of Hatsune Miku songs is in the hundreds of thousands, but Hatsune Miku not being encumbered by royalties probably contributed to her popularity.
Looking forward to the JEJ Google Maps voice!
"I am altering the route. Pray I do not alter it any further. Or, tap 'no thanks' to stay on the current route."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I am altering the route. Pray I do not alter it any further. Or, tap 'no thanks' to stay on the current route."
Off topic, but does this drive anyone else crazy? Why is changing my route opt out rather than opt in. As far as I can tell there's not even a setting to change that.
Google: you know I'm on a motorcycle. I see that on my location timeline page and marvel at the sophistication of technology. Please for the love of god if you won't give us a simple toggle for this behavior (I know you won't) just take the technology a tiny step farther and don't do this opt-out route changing thing if you detect I'm on a motorcycle.
Makes me wonder about copyright when it comes to voice synthesis via AI. Like legally speaking, did they "need" JEJ to sign off on this as opposed to just using his voice as training data? In the near future, I imagine it'd be easy enough to take a snippet of audio and transfer a celebrity's voice to it, similar to what we can already do to images using StyleGAN or something similar. Exciting times ahead!
Star Wars: Let the past die. Kill it if you have to. Also Star Wars: This. I don't find the idea of movies/music produced this way appealing at all. Rather see something recast (or new stories told with new characters) versus seeing this done for the sake of safe nostalgia sales. Perhaps if JEJ feels it is time to step away from the character upon reflection, Disney might do some reflecting as well.
When they take a stab at Episodes 7 - 9 again in a few years, they'll probably incorporate Anakin's force ghost more too. Although I suppose they don't need the voice. Might need it for flashback though.