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Tokyo court protects actor's voice under publicity rights
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The TikTok account uploaded 188 videos that Tsuda claimed used a voice cloned from his.
Tokyo district court ruled that a performerâs voice can receive protection under publicity rights in a case brought by actor Kenjiro Tsuda over AI-generated TikTok videos. The court dismissed his request to remove the videos because they had already been deleted.
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Tokyo district court ruled that human voices can be protected under publicity rights.
âvoices enjoy the same protection as publicity rightsâ
The court said unauthorised use of a performerâs voice can infringe publicity rights.
âThe unauthorised use of a performerâs voice ⊠can be considered an infringement on publicity rightsâ
The court dismissed Kenjiro Tsudaâs request for TikTok to remove the videos.
âthe court dismissed Tsudaâs request that the operator of TikTok remove the videosâ