Plaintiffs Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage (the “Voice Actor Plaintiffs”), on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, and John Doe (the “Consumer Plaintiff”) on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated (collectively “Plaintiffs”), filed their first amended complaint against Lovo, Inc.
The first amended complaint adds claims of copyright infringement for the training of Lovo’s AI model on copyrighted recordings of their voices. (The plaintiffs may have been waiting for the registrations of their works before they amended their complaint to include copyright claims.)
The first amended complaint also adds a “consumer class” to the group of plaintiffs (in addition to the voice actor class): “A second Consumer Class of consists of all consumers who purchased the
LOVO software and used the Lehrman, Sage, or other Voice Actor Class voices that
were stolen, cloned, used, and sold by LOVO.” “The Consumer Class consists of tens-of-thousands of people who used LOVO’s services thinking they had the legal right to use the voice actors’ voices. LOVO claims that as of the end of 2023, some 7 million projects were created using the LOVO Generator.”
This raises the total of copyright lawsuits against AI companies to 31.