{"id":25194,"date":"2026-09-30T11:38:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/ai-tool-that-copied-actors-lustrous-voice-violated-his-rights-says-tokyo-court\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T11:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T09:38:11","slug":"ai-tool-that-copied-actors-lustrous-voice-violated-his-rights-says-tokyo-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/ai-tool-that-copied-actors-lustrous-voice-violated-his-rights-says-tokyo-court\/","title":{"rendered":"AI tool that copied actor\u2019s \u2018lustrous\u2019 voice violated his rights, says Tokyo court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark verdict to protect publicity rights<\/p>\n<p>A court in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has ruled that the human voice has legal protection after a landmark case involving a well known actor and a TikTok account whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/artificialintelligenceai\">AI<\/a>-generated videos, he claimed, had cloned his \u201clustrous\u201d baritone voice.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo district court said on Wednesday that voices enjoy the same protection as publicity rights, at the end of a closely watched legal action brought against TikTok by Kenjiro Tsuda \u2013 best known for voicing the character Kento Nanami in the anime Jujutsu Kaisen.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/sep\/30\/ai-tool-copied-actor-kenjiro-tsuda-tokyo-court\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6c9559e6c1a3badb7e83f824e28884bb11f226a7\/0_46_4672_3736\/master\/4672.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ebd859c5cf31f9b2beb8c66f799bcaf8\" title=\"AI tool that copied actor\u2019s \u2018lustrous\u2019 voice violated his rights, says Tokyo court\" \/>Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark verdict to protect publicity rights<br \/>\nA court in Japan has ruled that the human voice has legal protection after a landmark case involving a well known actor and a TikTok account whose AI-generated videos, he claimed, had cloned his \u201clustrous\u201d baritone voice.<br \/>\nTokyo district court said on Wednesday that voices enjoy the same protection as publicity rights, at the end of a closely watched legal action brought against TikTok by Kenjiro Tsuda \u2013 best known for voicing the character Kento Nanami in the anime Jujutsu Kaisen. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark verdict to protect publicity rights A court in Japan has ruled that the human voice has legal protection after a landmark case involving a well known actor and a TikTok account whose AI-generated videos, he claimed, had cloned his \u201clustrous\u201d baritone voice. Tokyo district court said &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/ai-tool-that-copied-actors-lustrous-voice-violated-his-rights-says-tokyo-court\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI tool that copied actor\u2019s \u2018lustrous\u2019 voice violated his rights, says Tokyo court<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}