AI disputes in creative labour concern particular voices, likenesses, performances and conditions of use. A starting point is to ask what a permission covers, who decides, how compensation works and whether workers can bargain. This guide places collective agreements, public hearings and a judicial case alongside one another, preserving differences between places, industries and legal relationships.
View full image ↗Public hearing on AI regulation in dubbing at Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, 29 August 2024. Photograph by Bruno Spada.
Bruno Spada / Câmara dos Deputados
Source · Dubbing workers call for protection against unauthorised AI voice use ↗Replicating a voice or likeness, using an existing performance for model training, and producing a synthetic performer are different activities.
From strike to agreement: distinguish announcement, ratification and implementation ↗The 2023 screen strike and the 2024–2025 video-game performers’ strike concern separate contract negotiations.
Public hearings and a voice-rights case: different institutional routes ↗The Brazilian Dublagem Viva records connect dubbing workers’ demands, delivery of a manifesto and a congressional hearing.
How can consent, compensation and control be researched? ↗Ask of each source: which use does consent cover, and are training and outputs distinguished?
Related cases & evidence
These cases provide material for comparison and verification; no single source substantiates every claim in the guide.
SAG-AFTRA / 2023 screen strike and digital replicas ↗
This case contains three dated events; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.
View full image ↗Striking actors and writers in Los Angeles on 17 July 2023. This photograph documents the strike, not the November agreement.
Photograph: Benoît Prieur; Wikimedia Commons; CC0 1.0
Source · Striking actors and writers in LA, July 2023 ↗SAG-AFTRA / Video-game performers’ labour dispute ↗
Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.
View full image ↗SAG-AFTRA video game performers’ strike graphic, July 2024, preserved in contemporaneous coverage by 2x2.media.
SAG-AFTRA; reproduction source: 2x2.media
Source · SAG-AFTRA begins a strike against video game companies ↗Brazil’s Dublagem Viva / Dubbing and AI regulation ↗
Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.
View full image ↗Public hearing on AI regulation in dubbing at Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies, 29 August 2024. Photograph by Bruno Spada.
Bruno Spada / Câmara dos Deputados
Source · Dubbing workers call for protection against unauthorised AI voice use ↗Beijing AI-generated voice / Voice actor’s personality-rights case ↗
Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.
View full image ↗Image published with “Beijing Internet Court issues first-instance judgment in AI-generated voice personality-rights case”. Its creation date is not inferred from the event date in this record.
Image source: Beijing High People’s Court, Jingfa Wangshi; supplied by Beijing Internet Court and published through The Paper’s government channel; rights remain with the original rights holders.
Source · Beijing Internet Court issues first-instance judgment in AI-generated voice personality-rights case ↗Original sources
Câmara dos Deputados · PT
Read original source ↗Câmara dos Deputados · PT
Read original source ↗Beijing High People’s Court, Jingfa Wangshi; supplied by Beijing Internet Court and published through The Paper’s government channel · ZH
Read original source ↗This research guide is written by the archive. Its Chinese and English texts may include AI-assisted translations and may not yet have received independent human review. Check historical claims and rights information against the original-language sources.
Citation & methodology
This topic is a selection and reading path, not an exhaustive history. Cite the relevant record and original source for specific claims. To cite this guide, give its title, URL and access date.
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Creative labour, consent & AI rights: voice, performance and contracts. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/topics/creative-labour-ai-rights/guides/overview
Methodology & citation ↗