If you use Descript's voice cloning feature, you are personally responsible for getting permission from anyone whose voice you record and clone, and you confirm to Descript that you have done so.
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This clause shifts legal responsibility for obtaining biometric consent from Descript to the user, meaning if you clone someone's voice without their permission, you bear the legal exposure, not Descript.
Interpretive note: Whether Descript's liability shift to users is effective under applicable biometric privacy statutes and whether Descript itself retains regulatory exposure as a data controller are legally uncertain and jurisdiction-dependent.
Users who create voice clones of others are personally responsible for obtaining legally sufficient consent from those individuals, and failure to do so could expose the user to liability under biometric privacy laws or right of publicity statutes.
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"If you use Descript's voice cloning features, you represent and warrant that you have obtained all necessary rights, consents and permissions from any individuals whose voice, likeness, or other personal characteristics are captured in your Content, including the right for Descript to use such characteristics to create synthetic voice and likeness models.Excerpt from Descript's Terms of Service
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This clause shifts legal responsibility for obtaining biometric consent from Descript to the user, meaning if you clone someone's voice without their permission, you bear the legal exposure, not Descript.
Users who create voice clones of others are personally responsible for obtaining legally sufficient consent from those individuals, and failure to do so could expose the user to liability under biometric privacy laws or right of publicity statutes.
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