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Comment by krisoft

2 years ago

> That’s effectively what’s happening here, and it isn’t illegal.

It is more complicated than that. Check out Midler v. Ford Motor Co, or Waits V. Frito Lay.

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theultdev  2 years ago

Ford hired impersonators, she's not an impersonator, that's her real voice.

She's allowed to be a voice actor using her real voice.

Your can point to the "Her" tweet, but it's a pretty flimsy argument.

  • Matticus_Rex  2 years ago

    This is correct, and is very different from both the Midler and Waits cases. The courts are never going to tell a voice actor she can't use her real voice because she sounds too much like a famous person.

    And besides, it sounds more like Rashida Jones anyway. It's clearly not an impersonation.

  • krisoft  2 years ago

    > Your can point to the "Her" tweet, but it's a pretty flimsy argument.

    I'm not making arguments which are not already explicitly written in my post.

    My argument is simple: jorvi commented that you can hire "a real-life voice actress" to "try to imitate Scarlett Johansson’s voice as best as she could", and that is not illegal.

    I said that the legality of that is more complicated. What jorvi describes might or might not be illegal based on various factors. And I pointed them towards the two references to support my argument.

    I explicitly didn't say in that comment anything about the OpenAI/ScarJo case. You are reacting as if you think that I have some opinion about it. You are wrong, and it would be better if you would not try to guess my state of mind. If I have some opinion about something you will know because I will explicitly state it.

  • senorrib  2 years ago

    Whether the actor was an impersonator or not is still up to debate. I can see an argument being made when you consider the entire context.