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May 7, 2021
On Thursday, voice actor Beverly Standing, also known as Bev Standing, filed a complaint in the Southern District of New York against ByteDance E-Commerce Inc., doing business as TikTok, alleging that the defendant has imitated her likeness, particularly the likeness of her voice.
According to the complaint, Bev Standing “is a voice actor and is well known in the voice over industry. Plaintiff’s voice and likeness are well-known both in this country and abroad.” Meanwhile, the defendant via TikTok is a “social networking service and social media platform” that has short-form videos. The plaintiff noted that TikTok has a variety of features on its platform, for example, “a user is able to add a computer generated voice to play during the user’s uploaded videos. These videos, including any computer generated voices, are available for consumption by the millions of TikTok users worldwide.”