If voice cloning violates right of publicity when sound recordings are fed into a model directly,
I doubt that is true.
These things are not internationally standardized. So it very much depends on where you do it.
Q1 is if you are allowed to use a recording for that purpose. This is legal in some places but not in others. I don’t think it has to do with the right of publicity, though.
Q2 is what you are allowed to do with the output. If you fool people about who is talking, then right of publicity enters. It probably does not matter how you imitate the voice, but only if you fool people. If you imitate a voice badly, but deliberately fool an elderly person who is hard of hearing and not quite sharp anymore, then it doesn’t matter if it was a bad imitation.
Parody is probably fine in most places, but standards vary.
I doubt that is true.
These things are not internationally standardized. So it very much depends on where you do it.
Q1 is if you are allowed to use a recording for that purpose. This is legal in some places but not in others. I don’t think it has to do with the right of publicity, though.
Q2 is what you are allowed to do with the output. If you fool people about who is talking, then right of publicity enters. It probably does not matter how you imitate the voice, but only if you fool people. If you imitate a voice badly, but deliberately fool an elderly person who is hard of hearing and not quite sharp anymore, then it doesn’t matter if it was a bad imitation.
Parody is probably fine in most places, but standards vary.