Isn't a copyright violation already some sort of grounds for removal? If someone uploaded an app with a bunch of disney copyrighted stuff it would be pulled pretty quickly.

I imagine at the least the original developers could file a DMCA notice.

Seems like it should be, after all if you publish an app that plays copyrighted music it'd be folded by The Powers That Be pretty quickly.

In law, the size of your warchest matters a whole lot more than you think. Disney has an enormous warchest. You probably don't.

I mean, if Voice.ai doesn't have the rights to distribute a piece of software, then google and apple also do not have rights to distribute it. (They may have required that voice.ai (or whoever) indemnify them against legal action resulting from voice.ai's actions)

Perhaps the authors of praat or libgcrypt could issue a DMCA takedown request to apple and google?

Imagine if google's app store ended up with a similar system to yt's content ID - fingerprinting binaries to check if they comply with licensing lol