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Explore existing articles on AI and intellectual property, including rights relating to voice and IP strategy in the AI era.

Read the Japanese version / 日本語版を読む [Article / Personality rights, etc.] On the legal protection of voiceprints (大塚理彦, Patent, May 2025) 1. Personality rights and “voiceprint rights” Under current law, portrait rights are recognized on the basis of the right to pursue happiness under Article 13 of the Constitution. 2. Publicity rights The Supreme Court’s Pink Lady decision recognized the right to use exclusively the customer-attracting power of portraits and the like. 3. Copy