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 …
The Pitfalls of Perpetuity Contracts in Voice-Over And how time could provide a solution By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist In 2003, long before technology existed to closely reproduce human speech, voice-over artist Greg Marston, recorded a series of scripts through a production intermediary. Two years later, in 2005, Greg was asked to …
The Best Guide Yet to Voiceover Usage Fees With analogies from other industries to help understand them By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist In the UK professional voice-over world, usage fees are a longstanding, common and necessary industry standard. Unfortunately, there isn’t much written about them, and not all of the information is …
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 …
Five Keys to a Successful Voiceover Project How to unlock good practice in voiceover hiring By Chas Rowe Working with a professional UK voiceover artist can make you feel a bit lost, if you’ve not done it before. How do you find one? How much does it cost? How can you tell how good …
Why Voiceover Artists Need Good Briefs 5 reasons to give a good brief in a voiceover project By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist I like briefs. I like detailed briefs. I like detailed, branded, functional briefs. Too much information? Not for me. You see, we’re not talking about cotton underwear. We’re talking about business briefs. Proper, …
