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 …
Who Cares About Hungarian Vowels? On the artistic/authentic contradictions in The Brutalist By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist The vital stats of The Brutalist make it sound like a behemoth of film art. It’s got 10 Oscar nominations. It got a 17-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival. It’s 215 minutes, or 3 …
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 …
Five Ways to Write Voice-Over Copy Like a Jedi And you don’t even have to use ‘the Force’ By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist ‘‘You can type this sh*t, but you sure can’t say it! Move your mouth when you’re typing!” These were actor Harrison Ford’s immortal words to writer/director George Lucas 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 …
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, …
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 …
Too Much Information Is Good: A guide to client briefs in voiceover booking By Chas Rowe | UK male voice-over artist Before I became a full-time professional voiceover artist, I used to eat information for breakfast. I used to eat information at drive time. I used to eat information overnight. And I used to …
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 …
