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According to a judicial information notice, Beijing Internet Court’s first-instance ruling found that an identifiable natural person’s voice rights could extend to the AI voice at issue.
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Source · Beijing Internet Court issues first-instance judgment in AI-generated voice personality-rights case ↗What changed
In this case, the voice actor’s rights extend to an identifiable voice processed through AI.
Do not generalise this case into a finding that every synthetic voice infringes rights. The full judgment remains to be collected. The notice was published during the appeal period, before the first-instance judgment took effect; no later status is inferred here.
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According to a judicial information notice, Beijing Internet Court’s first-instance ruling found that an identifiable natural person’s voice rights could extend to the AI voice at issue.
SRC-0016Opening account of the ruling date, case facts and court findings
Beijing High People’s Court, Jingfa Wangshi; supplied by Beijing Internet Court and published through The Paper’s government channel · ZH · 2024-04-23
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. “Beijing Internet Court rules in an AI-generated voice personality-rights case.” evt-0017. Include this page’s URL and your access date when citing.