AI Consultation Faces Human Rights Problem Experts find hole in controversial UK government proposals By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist Legal consultants have argued that the UK Government’s proposals to enable AI companies to feed models on copyrighted material under a so-called “data-mining exception” could be challenged under human rights laws. Handley Gill, which …
US Voice Actors Closer to AI Legal Protections US Copyright Office makes new law recommendations to Congress By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist American voice actors and performers have received a boost from legal officials as part of a continuing campaign to protect their work against exploitation by artificial intelligence (AI). The US …
Farewell, Kobe Bryant: Basketball Storyteller Reflections on a star’s creativity – on and off the court By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist 27th January, 2020 Like many people around the world with a strong pull towards the sport of basketball and a longtime passion for the NBA, I struggled to sleep on …
Fair Pay/Play in the UK Voice-Over Industries: The First Independent Legal Survey of UK Voice-Over Artists Analysis & Comment By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist Introduction On 18th July 2019, the University of Exeter’s Centre for Science, Culture and the Law published the findings of the first independent, ”focused study” of voice-over artists …
How to Hire a UK Voiceover Artist 10 tips for good teamwork between clients, production houses and artists By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist What are your rates? Here’s the script – how much? Can you do a 30 quid buy-out with an NDA for all online media forever? These are all …
Why GDPR is FUBAR By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist The EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is like the Kennedy assassination: everybody’s got an opinion about it, lots of people claim they’re experts, nobody seems to be right, and we may be destined to debate it forever. And like the death of …
Ready For Launch By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist There’s a lot of hard work that goes into launching a website for a voice over business. It’s a bit like a space launch. First, you need the ideas. Second, you need the engineering to push those ideas forward. Third, you need the team …
