A Tokyo court says your voice belongs to you — even in the age of AI

Anime voice actor Kenjiro Tsuda, 55 — Kento Nanami in Jujutsu Kaisen, Seto Kaiba in Yu-Gi-Oh! — sued after a TikTok account with more than 200,000 followers used an AI-generated clone of his deep baritone to narrate over 180 videos. On September 30, the Tokyo District Court ruled that a person's voice is protected under publicity rights, 'as symbolic of one's personality as portraits are' — the first ruling of its kind in Japan. The removal order was denied only because the account had already been deleted.