Is someone's voice their IP? Is it more-valuable property because they are famous? What type of IP? Trademark? Without their name and image in combination, is a voice/likeness actually defensible?
Training a computer to have any actual-human sounding voice is likely to almost match someone's voice.
I haven't taken an IP class since 2004, but I'm not sure if there's a real case here is there?
I think it's key here that if someone else trained the voice and sounded like Scarlett Johansson, and there a payment to that person, and that person exist, it feels like to me they won't have a strong case.
Now if it was trained on the voices from various IP? Or "Computer generated", I think we have an argument that it was trained on her voice.
Totally anecdotal, but I have no idea who is the voice of Siri. And if I met them, I as a layperson would think “you sound like Siri” not vice-versa like this case.
Training a computer to have any actual-human sounding voice is likely to almost match someone's voice.
I haven't taken an IP class since 2004, but I'm not sure if there's a real case here is there?