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Re:Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice by dralley on Monday May 20, 2024 @07:53PM (#40422157)
What if the imitator is clearly an imitator? e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvF0l8RUGQ8
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Re:Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice by gcanyon on Monday May 20, 2024 @08:15PM (#40422376)
That's weird -- I would think Morgan Freeman would be able to sue over that, but I Am Not An Intellectual Property Lawyer.
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Re:Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice by kelnos on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:23AM (#40424469)
I feel like that's a little different. In the cases of Midler, Waits, and Johansson, the companies involved wanted to use their voices, were turned down, and then went with an imitator to make it seem to the audience that the celebrity was actually performing. In the case of this "Morgan Freeman" video, Freeman himself is very obviously not performing: the imitator appears on screen, so it's explicitly acknowledged in the ad.

But I'm not a lawyer of any sort either, so... ::shrug::

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