A Tokyo court ruled on 30 September that a voice, like a face, can be protected by publicity rights, a rare ruling in a country whose law names no voice right. It still rejected voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda's demand that TikTok's operator remove clips narrated by an AI imitation of him.
Tsuda sued over at least 188 clips from an anonymous account. TikTok called the narration a generic male voice.
The court found the videos were already gone from the servers, so nothing was left to delete.
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