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AI voices
Published on Friday 24 February 2023
While music-making AI tools pose a bunch of interesting copyright questions, I’m particularly interested at the moment in the AI technologies that take a voice and then create speech or vocals in it – like the one Spotify just unveiled – because, can you legally protect your voice? There’s a super interesting case in the US at the moment filed by Rick Astley, which isn’t an AI case, but which nevertheless asks whether the sound of your voice is protected by publicity rights. If you’re an IMPALA member, we’ll be discussing all this at next week’s Quick Fire Webinar! And here’s my report on the Spotify AI DJ thing.