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[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 145 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The precedent in this case already exists in Midler v. Ford Motor Co., in which when Academy Award nominated actress and singer Bette Midler sued Ford after Ford hired musical impersonators to sing famous songs for their commercials.

The court ultimately ruled in favor of Midler, because it was found that Ford gave clear instructions to the impersonating actress to sound as much like Midler as possible, and the ruling was voices, although not copyrightable, still constitutes their distinct identity and is protected against unauthorized use without permission. (Outside of satire, of course, since I doubt someone like Trump would be above suing people for making fun of him.)

I think Scarlett Johansson has a case here, but it really hinges on whether or not OpenAI actively gave the instruction specifically to impersonate Scarlett's voice in "Her", or if they used her voice inside the training data at all, since there is a difference in the "Sky" voice and the voice of Scarlett Johansson.

But then again, what do I know, I'm just here to shitpost and promote "Barbie".

[–] Ardyssian@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This reads like a lemmy version of a shittymorph post

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I have more than one comedy bit I do here other than something something Hell in a Cell, OK?

Speaking of which, Hell in a Cell isn't even that exciting anymore after the WWE made it an annual event and painted the cages red, and why did Seth Rollins get disqualified after he attacked "The Fiend" Bray Wyatt with a sledgehammer 2019 even though Hell in a Cell matches have always been no disqualification?

It's like their script writers don't even care about their own rules.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yep, definitely a Lemmy version of /u/shittymorph

[–] Moneo@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

I miss shittymorph.

[–] caveman8000@lemmy.world 28 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 41 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's, uh, "Jaime Pressly", who is totally not esteemed Academy Award nominated character actress Margot Robbie doing an American Southern accent to get more work in the US.

[–] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Real talk: at this point, you may be my main reason to still be active on Lemmy.

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Because of an impersonator?

[–] bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more fun and productive to abolish intellectual property instead

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Not before abolishing capitalism or you're just making things worse.

[–] Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think abolishing intellectual property would hurt capitalism more than it would benefit it. Already it is strongly in favor of the rich and the big corporations. Getting rid of those limitations even without abolishing capitalism first, would, I think, be more to everyone's benefit than detriment.

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

Disagree, without IP laws whoever has the most money can crush all competition. An example of this is how the first pump hand soap softsoap couldn't patent the hand pump design because it already existed so they just bought all the existing stock to prevent anyone from releasing a competing product.

If you get rid of IP laws you'll just further entrench the existing winners.

Write a good book? Without copyright, Penguin random house publishes an exact copy at a higher quality and sells a million copies while you sell a handful to discerning fans.

Build a quality product? Without trademark, proctor and gamble flood the market using your brand name and nobody can distinguish their products from yours even though their quality is much worse.

Invent something revolutionary? Without patents you have to keep your process a secret so you don't get copied. If you get hit by a bus your invention is now lost to society forever unless someone manages to reverse-engineee it.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

That's not happenning without weaking this core pillar.

[–] pirat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Tough N2T IMO but IANAL and IDH another good acronym UMS to drop here so GTFO and HAGO!

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

This is a calculated move to destroy competition. Scarlet is just a lightning rod.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago

That's probably going to be a big deal in future AI lawsuit.

If intellectual property isn't exterminated wholesale it will lead to explicitely refusing to answer any person or copyrighted works by name.

So instead of "sing a song about bananas by Taylor Swift" it will be "sing a song about banana by a female singer pop singer whose songs are, on the whole, quite straightforward, primarily revolving around the saga of girl-meets-boy, boy-fails-to-live-up-to-expectations, girl-pens-another-breakup-anthem. Each track features tales of romantic entanglements and emotional rollercoasters, culminating in catchy, radio-friendly tunes that are sure to dominate the charts, accompanied by dramatic twists and heartfelt reconciliations that appear almost out of thin air."

[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit we have a character on Lemmy now I'm deleting my Reddit account

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Who knew someone who plays characters on screen for a living would be so good at playing a character?

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is an A-Lister commie board, we have Ryan Gosling too!

Edit: whoops I thought this was a hexbear post but my point stands, less commie though

[–] Noodle07@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

It's that barbie girl, in the lemmy wooorld ~~