A voice can now be reproduced from a few minutes of recorded speech.
The technology has obvious and genuine uses.
People losing the ability to speak can bank a voice and keep it.
Translation can carry a speaker's own voice into another language.
The harms are equally clear and arrive faster, because a voice is a in daily life.
Families have been persuaded to send money by a voice they believed they recognised.
Banks that adopted voice have quietly added a second factor.
The legal position is unsettled because a voice sits between a work and a person.
Copyright protects a recording and does not protect the sound of a person.
Rules about protect a face in many places and a voice in fewer.
Several jurisdictions have begun to extend those rules explicitly.
is the operative word and is easy to obtain carelessly.
A in a recording contract can transfer a voice permanently for a single day's fee.
Unions have therefore concentrated on term and rather than on prohibition.
A licence that expires and names its uses is a workable settlement; a transfer is not.