The recent rapid development of AI technology has led to problems of unauthorized use of human voice and portrait, such as AI cover and deepfakes. The legal mechanism for the protection of human voice and portrait varies widely among jurisdictions, such as the state right of publicity in the US, the passing off mechanism in the UK, the right of publicity without an explicit provision in Japan, the unfair competition prevention system in South Korea, and the explicit provision in the Civil Code in China. This lecture will cover the current situation and future prospects in Japan, introducing the recent campaign by Japanese voice actors.
Professor Tatsuhiro Ueno
After starting his academic career as a lecturer at Seijo University and as an Associate Professor at Rikkyo University, Professor Ueno was appointed as a Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Waseda University in 2013. He is considered as a leading copyright law specialist in Japan and beyond and is the author of the Japan part of the multi-volume sets Copyright Throughout the World (edited by Silke von Lewinski, Thomson/West) and International Copyright Law and Practice (edited by Lionel Bently, Matthew Bender). Professor Ueno has been a Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property and Competition Law in Munich from 2010 to 2011 and a Visiting Scholar at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 2019 to 2020.
- Speaker
- Professor Tatsuhiro Ueno
- Hosted by
- Centre of Commercial Law
- Venue
- Hybrid Event (On-Campus Venue: The Sir Duncan Rice Library - Seminar Room 224)
- Contact
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