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Re:OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson's Voice by Retric on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:19PM (#40457352)
The issue isn’t hiring a voice actor to imitate someone, that can be fine. The issue is what you can do with the recordings after you have them.

Making a YouTube instructional view on how to imitate voices that includes clips of a film for example would be fine. Reusing the exact sounds from that YouTube video in a different context and you’re in legal trouble.

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Re:OpenAI and Scarlett Johansson's Voice by beeboobaa3 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @01:43PM (#40457660)
Right, but making a YouTube instructional video on how to imitate voices, where you only use the imitation voice, is fine. Which is closer to what happened here it seems like.
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