Description
Setting the Legal Tone is a YorVoice research collaboration between The Departments of Law, Language and Linguistic Science, and Sociology. It is only in very recent times that the concept of ‘ownership’ of a human voice has begun to demand proper consideration in terms of its legal implications. The current lack of clarity with respect to the rights afforded to individuals and organisations in this area is something that must be addressed as a matter of some urgency, given that voice samples are now collected on an unprecedented scale, with or without the knowledge or consent of the person(s) who produced the captured speech. In this project we explore the issue of voice ownership from a variety of perspectives, starting with an attempt to define what the voice actually is for these purposes, and then considering how representations of a talker’s voice at greater or lesser levels of concreteness (or ‘tangibility’) can be misappropriated and misused in unethical or unlawful ways. The standard forms of protection provided by current intellectual property and adjacent rights are likely incapable of protection of the “un-captured” voice of an individual who does not have a recognisable voice and commercial goodwill. Therefore, this project will investigate the nature and structures of potential rights that will protect an individual’s personality and how such "personality" rights may extend to the protection of an individual’s voice.Workshop Included a Presentation from Emily Jones and Erich Hou-Richards of the UK Intellectual Property Office
| Period | 25 Nov 2024 |
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| Event type | Workshop |
| Location | York, United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |