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ab2143
Joined: 09 Jan 2021
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| Quote: | | TikTok, the defendant, argues that the voice used in the narration is a "universal male voice" |
I saw a Japanese tweet that said if his voice was really universal, Japan’s declining birth rate would have been resolved
Hopefully, he wins
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AiddonValentine
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2026 12:33 pm |
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Good for him, hope he takes them to the cleaners
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WANNFH
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2026 1:53 pm |
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| ab2143 wrote: | | I saw a Japanese tweet that said if his voice was really universal, Japan’s declining birth rate would have been resolved
Hopefully, he wins |
For real - if TsudaKen voice is considered as "universal male voice", then I want the TikTok legal team try to demonstrate it right in the court by pulling it by themselves - you know, just to add sheer hilarity before the judge.
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Zoltan Kakler
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2026 3:50 pm |
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Doesn't Section 230 pretty much shield them from being blamed for what users are doing? Wouldn't it make more sense to sue the person who made and upload the videos if he felt it was a violation?
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Nova99
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2026 5:50 pm |
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| Zoltan Kakler wrote: | | Doesn't Section 230 pretty much shield them from being blamed for what users are doing? Wouldn't it make more sense to sue the person who made and upload the videos if he felt it was a violation? |
From the article:
"Tsuda filed the lawsuit at Tokyo District Court in November last year"
I assume Section 230, being a U.S. law, has no bearing on a case brought under the Japanese legal system?
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WANNFH
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2026 5:51 pm |
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| Zoltan Kakler wrote: | | Doesn't Section 230 pretty much shield them from being blamed for what users are doing? Wouldn't it make more sense to sue the person who made and upload the videos if he felt it was a violation? |
That's US law, but Japan doesn't have the equivalent of it - and Japanese law is operating under the similar thing to DMCA.
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Mizlude
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| Posted: Tue May 26, 2026 10:55 pm |
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I wonder if Tsuda has a chance of winning or not. Every other video I see on on Tiktok is an AI voice narrating the events of a movie. Seems like something people would have sued for already if they could. I see AI voices everywhere.
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Greed1914
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2026 12:31 pm |
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Everyone's voice is unique in different ways, so is there even a "Universal Male Voice"? And if there is, well, the results seem to be laid out from the description in the article: tons of generic videos done for nothing other than farming ad revenue.
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AsleepBySunset
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| Posted: Wed May 27, 2026 3:07 pm |
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| Greed1914 wrote: | | Everyone's voice is unique in different ways, so is there even a "Universal Male Voice"? And if there is, well, the results seem to be laid out from the description in the article: tons of generic videos done for nothing other than farming ad revenue. |
(agreeing with you), there's no "universal voice", the idea is just patent, there are definately voices which are more resonant and we associate resonant, chesty male voices with trailers and announcing... but that's just the same way we associate certain facial features with being photogenic, there's probably people out there who are beautiful in a strange oddly generic way because there features are kind of "generic" and perhaps even evoke stock photography or adverts, but that doesn't mean their face is a free-to-grab-resource-for-companies.
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