{"id":989635,"date":"2026-02-04T08:06:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989635"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:11:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:41:36","slug":"german-voice-actors-boycott-netflix-over-ai-training-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/german-voice-actors-boycott-netflix-over-ai-training-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"German voice actors boycott Netflix over AI training concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German voice actors have launched a grassroots boycott against Netflix \u200dover a contract clause that allows the streaming platform to use their recordings for AI \u2060training, a spokesperson for the VDS voice actors&#8217; association told Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>Netflix&#8217;s global footprint has increased demand for dubbed content, with international hits such as South Korea&#8217;s &#8220;Squid Game&#8221; and Spain&#8217;s &#8220;Money Heist&#8221; attracting audiences far \u200cbeyond their home \u200cmarkets. <\/p>\n<p>But voice actors, like many in the entertainment industry, are increasingly wary of artificial intelligence upending their livelihood and \u200craising fresh copyright concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German voice actors have launched a grassroots boycott against Netflix \u200dover a contract clause that allows the streaming platform to use their recordings for AI \u2060training, a spokesperson for the VDS voice actors&#8217; association told Reuters. Netflix&#8217;s global footprint has increased demand for dubbed content, with international hits such as South Korea&#8217;s &#8220;Squid Game&#8221; and Spain&#8217;s &#8220;Money Heist&#8221; attracting audiences far \u200cbeyond their home \u200cmarkets. But voice actors, like many in the entertainment industry, are increasingly wary of artificial intelligence upending their livelihood and \u200craising fresh copyright concerns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}