The really funny thing is that the Hassenfeld family (owners of Hasbro Toy Company) was a major contributor to the opening of the BrownHealth (of Brown University) Children's Hospital, which was (and is) named the Hasbro Children's Hospital.

Hasbro continues to be a big sponsor/contributor to the hospital...and supposedly will continue to if the move to Boston.

Serinus@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 77d

I think that was "The Little Mermaid".

Scene of The Little Mermaid where Ariel's voice is taken by Ursula

rumba@lemmy.zip · 22 pts · 77d (9 replies)

This is an interesting one.

Usually, child actors only have child voices for so many years. Kids shows can only run so many seasons that they need to change actors.

How about: permission to use the voice is leased yearly to this media format only, at a fixed rate. Every year, the contract comes up for renewal and pays base + 2x inlfation, any other uses are unavailable without negotiation.

SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 59 pts · 77d (2 replies)

How about just hire another kid so another kid can get paid instead of paying an already well-paid kid more and then the company getting to make all the money off it from then on?

rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 77d (1 reply)

How about just hire another kid so another kid can get paid instead of paying an already well-paid kid more It's an option, they do it all the time now. Lots of people don't care for the voice changes, but in kids shows, it is less of a problem.

How about when VO actors age out? What if they can sit on real cash into retirement?

and then the company getting to make all the money off it from then on?

No, that lease is per year. They kid keeps making the money because they own the rights to the voice. The AI reproduction hardly costs the production company anything, the child actor makes a reliable income while the show is still usable.

SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 77d

How about when VO actors age out? What if they can sit on real cash into retirement?

They can pivot to acting in other roles.

No, that lease is per year. They kid keeps making the money because they own the rights to the voice.

At this step of the machine that never ceases attempting to encroach further and further into our rights in the name of profit. Don't count on it staying that way if we let this encroachment stand.

frongt@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 77d (1 reply)

Usually kids are voiced by adult women. Tara Strong voiced Timmy Turner in The Fairly OddParents until she was 44, while he remained 10.

Actors already get residuals from reruns. Even if they use AI, I don't see why they can't just keep paying them for new and recurring use.

rumba@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 77d

Peppa Pig wasn't, neither is Bluey.

It's not universal

Even if they use AI, I don’t see why they can’t just keep paying them for new and recurring use.

That's exactly what I was saying... keep paying them AND increase it for inflation

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 77d (3 replies)

Don't they usually use grown women (ie Yeardly Smith as Lisa Simpson) for just this reason?

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 77d (2 replies)

Normally. But on cases like bluey it gives it quite a different and authentic tone to use kid actors

radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 77d (1 reply)

I heard they don't really credit the kids they use as voice talent in Bluey.

SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 76d

That has more to do with privacy

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 77d

they have already done all the model training, just waiting for that signature, or a loophole to use it anyway and get away with it

Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 77d

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rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 77d

Sure, but exclusively only for Peppa Pig, and I get paid in full for every episode and full royalties for recurring use of my voice.

turkalino@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 77d

Is this why Kanye West has beef with Peppa Pig?

FatVegan@leminal.space · -9 pts · 77d (2 replies)

Beloved by whom?

qevlarr@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 77d

Peppa Pig is a wholesome cultural icon. Don't be that person. It's for kids

sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 77d

Like.... Probably every 2 to 5 year old in the western hemisphere?