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 ↗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 ↗IMPF and IMPEL publish principles for fair generative-AI licensing ↗
On 30 September 2026, IMPF and IMPEL proposed principles for generative-AI music licensing. They distinguish payments for past uses, training, generated outputs and future exploitation, and call for rightsholder involvement in scope and valuation. This is an industry negotiating framework, not a concluded collective licence or a statutory tariff.
View full image ↗Title area of page 1 of the IMPF and IMPEL joint statement, 30 September 2026. Cropped from the original PDF; lettering is unchanged.
IMPF / IMPEL; official original document
Source · Joint Statement: IMPEL and IMPF on Fair Licensing for Generative AI ↗Third Circuit affirms the ROSS copyright and fair-use ruling ↗
In case 25-2153, the Third Circuit affirmed the copyright and fair-use ruling concerning 2,243 Westlaw headnotes. The opinion records a filing date of 29 September 2026; the court’s public list records the case on 30 September. The dispute concerns protected summaries used for a competing legal-search system. The ROSS system at issue was not generative AI.
View full image ↗First page of the Third Circuit opinion in the ROSS appeal, No. 25-2153, filed 29 September 2026.
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; official original document
Source · Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH; West Publishing Corp v. Ross Intelligence Inc., No. 25-2153 ↗Connecticut provenance duties for large generative-AI providers take effect ↗
Section 15 of Public Act 26-15 takes effect on 1 October 2026. It imposes provenance duties on covered providers of generative-AI systems with over one million monthly users that are publicly accessible for personal use by Connecticut consumers. It concerns generated or materially altered audio, images and video, subject to commercial and technical reasonableness.
Read the case, chronology & documents ↗Maryland AI and deepfake identity-fraud amendments take effect ↗
SB 8 / Chapter 445, approved on 12 May 2026, takes effect on 1 October and amends Criminal Law §8-301. It brings specified AI and deepfake conduct within identity-fraud rules. The relevant prohibition requires knowing, wilful conduct and fraudulent intent, addressing harmful impersonation and specified false-record practices rather than generally banning AI art or stylistic imitation.
Read the case, chronology & documents ↗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 ↗United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · EN
Read original source ↗United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · EN
Read original source ↗Connecticut General Assembly · EN
Read original source ↗Maryland General Assembly · EN
Read original source ↗Maryland General Assembly · EN
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
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Creative labour, consent & AI rights: voice, performance and contracts. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/topics/culture-governance/guides/creative-labour
Methodology & citation ↗