The plaintiff is a very well-known German voice actor who is known for synchronizing actors like Bruce Willis in Germany. He is also known for his distinctive voice from a lot of commercials on TV and radio.
The defendant is a youtube creator who used an AI-tool to generate a “heroic sounding voice” for two of his videos, criticizing the German government. The Plantiff claimed, that the generated voice sounded highly similar to his voice and that several people in the comments recognized it as “his voice”. He claimed that this use violated his personality rights in the form of the “right to his own voice” and sued for damages in the amount of his usual license fee. It is not specified in the decision, which AI-tool was used to create the voice or who created the tool. The lawsuit was only directed against the video creator, not against the developer of the AI-tool.