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Japan's justice ministry sets civil-law panel on AI-era voice, portrait rights

By Toko Sekiguchi ( April 20, 2026, 07:57 GMT | Insight) -- Japan’s justice ministry is moving to clarify when generative artificial intelligence users may face civil liability for copying a person’s voice or likeness without consent, setting up an expert panel that could become one of the government’s clearest public statements yet on how existing civil-law doctrines apply to deepfakes and voice cloning.Japan’s justice ministry is moving to clarify when generative artificial intelligence users may face civil liability for copying a person’s voice or likeness without consent, setting up an expert panel that could become one of the government’s clearest public statements yet on how existing civil-law doctrines apply to deepfakes and voice cloning....

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