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AI Voice Enters the Copyright Regime: Proposal of a Three-Part Framework
Prachi Patel
Note

  The full text of this Note may be found here.

34 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 451 (2024).

Note by Prachi Patel*

 

ABSTRACT

 

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e are told that our voice is one of the most powerful tools we have. However, is it just as powerful if it can be replicated? Artificial intelligence has developed to the point where it can create an exact clone of a person’s voice. While there have been many advancements in this field, there are few laws that address artificial intelligence and its use. Artificial intelligence has been used to create artificial voices of well-known figures, both deceased and alive, some without their consent. This creates a need to balance the incentivization of technological development and the protection of an individual’s autonomy over their identity. This Note focuses on the use of artificially generated voice and how current copyright laws can be amended to welcome it into the copyright regime, suggesting a three-part framework that will resolve the tensions raised by the creation and use of artificial voice without silencing it.

 


* J.D. Candidate, Fordham University School of Law, 2024; B.B.A, Marketing, University of Texas at Austin, 2019. I thank my parents for their unconditional support and my sister for giving me the courage to take chances. Lastly, I thank my best friend for never failing to make me laugh.