If voice cloning violates right of publicity when sound recordings are fed into a model directly, does hiring a voice actor to imitate a voice and then feeding the imitated voice into a model violates right of publicity as well?
If voice cloning violates right of publicity when sound recordings are fed into a model directly, does hiring a voice actor to imitate a voice and then feeding the imitated voice into a model violates right of publicity as well?
If it’s a distinctive voice and you’re doing it for commercial reasons, you will get sued and, depending on how distinct the voice is, lose. Look up Tom Waits v. Frito-Lay. He won $2.6 million from them in 1992. Granted, that was a radio commercial, but that would be the main precedent. http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/communications/waits.html