Tik Tok in hot water over viral voice usage
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Chinese short video platform TikTok is being sued by a voice actor who claims her voice was used in the viral text-to-speech feature, without her permission.
The lawsuit, filed last week, said Bev Standing s voice has been used to repeat foul and offensive language and that TikTok s use will cause her irreparable harm .
According to The Verge, standing said that she did voice recordings for a text-to-speech feature several years ago for a group called the Institute of Acoustics (IOA).
Those recordings were meant to be used for translations of Chinese texts as part of a contract with an unnamed Chinese company, the lawsuit said.
A Canadian actor is suing the parent company of social media company TikTok, claiming that the video-sharing app is using her voice to narrate videos without her permission. Legal experts say the outcome of the copyright case could be crucial for protecting the work of voice actors.
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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.”
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Doctors are regulated by the General Medical Council, dentists by the General Dental Council, pharmacists by the General Pharmaceutical Council and barristers by the Bar Standards Board.
There are around 11 Royal Colleges that review a doctor’s ability to practice. Although some dentists specialisein such a way that they have to join a medical college, their ability to practice as a dentist appears to be directly regulated by the British Dental Council.
Pharmacists become members of the Royal PharmaceuticalSociety, which only recently passed regulatory authority to a new body called the General Pharmaceutical Council. Although a pharmacist might work directly for a drugs company, in a hospital or in a community pharmacy they are all in the same society. The Bar Standards Board appears similar to the General Dental Council in that they oversee barristers almost directly.