Amazon’s Street Home reboot is accused of copyright infringement — and AI voice cloning


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The screenwriter of the 1989 motion movie Street Home is suing MGM Studios and its proprietor Amazon Studios, accusing them of copyright infringement over the upcoming Street Home remake, report the Los Angeles Instances and The Hollywood Reporter. The lawsuit, filed on Tuesday within the U.S. Central District Court docket in Los Angeles, additionally alleges that Amazon Studios resorted to generative AI to clone actor’s voices in an effort to end the Street Home remake throughout final yr’s Hollywood strikes, which largely shut down movie manufacturing.

Within the criticism, screenwriter R. Lance Hill reportedly states that he filed a petition with the US Copyright Workplace in November 2021 to reclaim the rights for the screenplay (which each the unique Street Home and Amazon…

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