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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.
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?
How about when VO actors age out? What if they can sit on real cash into retirement?
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.
They can pivot to acting in other roles.
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.
Don't they usually use grown women (ie Yeardly Smith as Lisa Simpson) for just this reason?
Normally. But on cases like bluey it gives it quite a different and authentic tone to use kid actors
I heard they don't really credit the kids they use as voice talent in Bluey.
That has more to do with privacy
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.
Peppa Pig wasn't, neither is Bluey.
It's not universal
That's exactly what I was saying... keep paying them AND increase it for inflation