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?
It does not unless you are trying to sell it commercially. Then you could be sued.
You make a decent thought exercise and honestly voices are not really unique. For instance, take Morgan Freeman’s voice. I like it, but I have met several people in my life that sound very similar.
I think the answer is maybe, depending on the situation. If you had a voice actor come in to mimick Morgan Freeman and the character in the game also looked like Freeman then you could have a problem on your hands.
Just the voice that sound like Freeman who also sounds like thousands of people out there would be a bit of a stretch unless you are implying it is him.