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The Japan Actors Union advises voice actors and agencies to seek explicit explanations before signing about AI training, reuse, duration of use, initial and subsequent remuneration, and data management. It also says its AI guidelines remain in preparation.
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The Japan Actors Union advises voice actors and agencies to seek explicit explanations before signing about AI training, reuse, duration of use, initial and subsequent remuneration, and data management. It also says its AI guidelines remain in preparation.
Read webpage lines 72–169, displaying publication on 10 February 2026. This is union advice, not law, an executed contract or effective final guidelines, and it establishes no infringement by an unnamed company. Technical statements such as the impossibility of complete deletion are union warnings, not independently verified technical findings. The current webpage is not necessarily an unchanged first version.
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The Japan Actors Union advises voice actors and agencies to seek explicit explanations before signing about AI training, reuse, duration of use, initial and subsequent remuneration, and data management. It also says its AI guidelines remain in preparation.
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