On the evening of March 1, Andy Lau Film Company @ Yingyi Entertainment issued a statement, saying that some online entities have recently opened a Xiaohongshu account in the name of Mr. Andy Lau's fan club: hzjlb20080618, and formed a group chat through the online platform, inviting fans to become members, and even impersonating the official ** of "Andy World".Through its pirated ** "Andy Club" (www.awc618.Co) spread false information about Mr. Andy Lau's 2024 concert, and at the same time collected deposits from consumers for concert tickets, causing a bad impact.
20 minutes later, the account issued a "solemn statement on the infringement of AI synthesized voices" again
Recently, our company found that the WeChat user "Andy Sharing Group" (*koh173) and its associated ** number "Andy Assembly Number".Falsifying Mr. Andy Lau's voice through information technology means, and continuously publishing his clips and patchwork on the WeChat platform without authorization, resulting in misidentification by the publicIn order to achieve the purpose of using Mr. Liu's popularity to attract traffic, sell goods, and make profits. The actMr. Andy Lau's portrait rights, name rights and voice rights have been seriously infringed, and are suspected of constituting fraud.
Accounts that are alleged to be infringing.
Someone bought a ticket for piracy**
and being cheated out of money
Journalists through searching.
Go to the home page of the pirated ** "Andy Club".
On its "Andy Information" page, the reporter inquired that at the end of last year, there was a notification letter "about opening Andy Lau's 2024 Chinese mainland tour ticket reservations".
The notification letter reads:"The club has preliminarily completed the work with Andy Lau's 2024 Chinese mainland tour organizers of the performance tickets, seats, and ticket purchase channels", and said that the ** members-only area is the reservation and ticket purchase channel for concert tickets.
Some netizens said.
I was cheated out of money in that **
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In recent years, AI technologies such as AI voice change have become more and more widely used in various fields, especially the new form of AI cover singing. In fact,AI technology is inherently neutral, but if used incorrectly, it can have a "double-edged sword" effect. It has the potential to improve our lives, but it also carries the risk of infringement.
The reporter found through search that on December 12 last year, an "AI voice infringement case" was tried in the Beijing Internet CourtThis case is the first case in China that claims that AI-generated sound products infringe personality rights.
In this case, the plaintiff, Ms. Yin, found that an app called "Magic Sound Workshop" made profits in the name of "Mo Xiaoxuan" after making AI its voice, and the voice of "Mo Xiaoxuan" immediately appeared in the user works of multiple short ** platforms, among which only one user named "Xiao He Kan Opera" released 119 works using the dubbing of "Mo Xiaoxuan". Several of the defendants flatly denied the infringement and claimed to have obtained legal authorization.
It is reported that the verdict in this case was not pronounced in court. Regardless of the verdict, this is the first case of AI-generated voice infringement of personality rights in China, which will be of exemplary significance.
The second paragraph of Article 1023 of the Civil Code provides:The protection of natural persons' voices is to be protected by reference to the provisions on the protection of portrait rights, to prevent them from being confused, abused, fraudulently used, or improperly used. Therefore,If the right holder does not obtain the authorization of the voice, there is a risk of infringement of the AI synthesized sound.