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Right-of-publicity

  • Jason Isbell's class action against Suno is about identity, not copyright

    Jason Isbell, David Lowery, Guy Forsyth and Eduardo Calle have sued Suno under state publicity laws and Illinois' biometric privacy law, not copyright. They say Suno's model knows musicians by name and voice. If the theory holds, it gives artists who don't own their masters a claim of their own, though as drafted it favours the famous.

    Artist rightsvia US District Court for the District of Massachusetts (via Music Business Worldwide)

  • Voice actors win round one against an AI voice company in New York: what Lehrman v. Lovo means for singers

    A federal judge in Manhattan has let two voice actors pursue New York publicity, consumer-protection and contract claims against Lovo, the AI voice company they say cloned them, while dismissing most of their trademark and copyright claims. This was a ruling on a motion to dismiss, not a win at trial. Its reasoning still matters to singers: in this court's view, copyright in a recording doesn't protect the voice on it, but New York's civil rights law does.

    Artist rightsvia US District Court for the Southern District of New York

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