Comment by qarl
2 years ago
You should read it yourself, and the Watts case, and any other impersonator case.
You can use impersonators for parody, but not for selling products.
2 years ago
You should read it yourself, and the Watts case, and any other impersonator case.
You can use impersonators for parody, but not for selling products.
They didn't use an impersonator.
> "Hey, this sounds just like the actress in 'Her', great, let's use them"
You agree that OpenAI is choosing the voice because it sounds like SJ. How exactly is that different from impersonation?
That's perfectly fine. SJ does not have an intellectual property claim on someone else's natural speaking voice. This is addressed directly in Midler v. Ford.
You don't know that's what happened, but it wouldn't matter either way. Regardless: it is misleading to call that person an "impersonator". I'm confident they don't wake up the morning and think to themselves "I'm performing SJ" when they order their latte.
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