{"id":34955,"date":"2025-05-10T19:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=34955"},"modified":"2025-05-10T19:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T11:21:17","slug":"%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e7%bb%8f%e6%b5%8e%e4%ba%a7%e4%b8%9a%e7%9c%81%ef%bc%9aai-%e6%9c%aa%e7%bb%8f%e5%90%8c%e6%84%8f%e4%bd%bf%e7%94%a8%e4%ba%ba%e7%b1%bb%e5%a3%b0%e4%bc%98%e5%a3%b0%e9%9f%b3%ef%bc%8c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/34955.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry: AI using human voice actors' voices without consent may violate local unfair competition law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 10 - Kyodo News reported.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac\" title=\"_Other Organiser\" target=\"_blank\" >Japan<\/a>METI warns of unauthorized use<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e5%a3%b0%e4%bc%98\" title=\"[Sees articles with [sounds] labels]\" target=\"_blank\" >voice actor<\/a>and artificial intelligence for actor voice generation (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [AI]]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI<\/a>) works, may violate the Unfair Competition Prevention Act.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34956\" title=\"6361978fj00sw1m6a00ngd000tr00k3p\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/6361978fj00sw1m6a00ngd000tr00k3p.jpg\" alt=\"6361978fj00sw1m6a00ngd000tr00k3p\" width=\"1071\" height=\"723\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The agency cited<strong>Learning the voices of voice actors and actresses through AI and having them sing non-representational songs, which are later uploaded to video platforms<\/strong>behavior as an example. Local authorities have previously stated that<strong>Under certain conditions, these acts may violate the law.<\/strong>The public is further reminded of the risks of unauthorized use through specific cases.<\/p>\n<p>Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) today released a document entitled \"Applicable Cases Foreseeable from the Perspective of the Unfair Competition Prevention Law,\" stating that the unauthorized use of voice actors' or actresses' AI sounds to<strong>Manufacture and sale of alarm clocks and other products<\/strong>It is also possible that a violation of the law may be involved. Whether or not there is a violation of the law needs to be determined on a case-by-case basis, depending on the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese Unfair Competition Prevention Act also prohibits the sale of similar goods with the same name as other popular goods, or the unauthorized use of another person's brand for one's own products. Unauthorized use of voice actors or actresses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/ai%e5%a3%b0%e9%9f%b3\" title=\"[SEES ARTICLES WITH [AI VOICE] LABELS]\" target=\"_blank\" >AI Voice<\/a>The above scenarios may be involved. In the event of a breach of the Act, the parties concerned may face up to five years' imprisonment or up to three years' imprisonment. <strong>5 million yen<\/strong>(Note: the current exchange rate is approximately RMB 249,000)<strong>Fines up to<\/strong>The penalty is even a combination of both.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has warned that the unauthorized use of artificial intelligence (AI) works generated from the voices of voice actors and actresses may violate the Unfair Competition Prevention Act, Kyodo News reported. The agency cited the act of learning the voices of voice actors and actresses through AI and having them sing non-representational songs that are subsequently uploaded to video platforms as an example. The local government has previously stated that these actions may violate the law under certain conditions, and is now using specific cases to further alert the public to the risks of unauthorized use. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) today released a document entitled \"Applicable Cases Foreseeable from the Perspective of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act,\" stating that the unauthorized use of voice actors' or actresses' AI tones for the manufacture and sale of products such as alarm clocks may also be a violation of the law. Whether or not this is a violation of the law requires<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[411,645,4661,226],"collection":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-news","7":"tag-ai","9":"tag-4661","10":"tag-226"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34955"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=34955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}