Jeff McMahon: Legally actionable in multiple ways, because not only are they appropriating the likenesses, but they’d also have to be using copyrighted movies/TV shows, right?

Not only morally abominable but easily legally actionable, initiated by big-pocketed plaintiffs. The dumbest business plan ever.

Earlier this week, AI company ElevenLabs said it is bringing digitally produced celebrity voice-overs of deceased actors to its newly launched Reader app. The company said the app takes articles, PDF, ePub, newsletters, e-books or any other text on your phone and turns it into voice-overs.

AI resurrects deceased actors’ voices to read audiobooks | CNN Businesscnn.it Actress Judy Garland never recorded her voice to read an audiobook of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but you’ll soon be able to hear her rendition of the children’s novel that inspired the movie nonethel...

Legally actionable in multiple ways, because not only are they appropriating the likenesses, but they’d also have to be using copyrighted movies/TV shows, right?

Clearly, but that's baked-in to the process. That said, it might make studios sit up and take notice.

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