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This is a battle the voice actors won't win, unfortunately. Maybe today, their voices are iconic. You can't make a new Frozen movie or any other Disney Pixar without the original voice actor (you can, but it's bad).
But in the future, the next "voice actor" for the next big Disney Pixar hit, is a pure AI from the start. Then they can control the voice forever. And that's what they want.
I can't see how the voice actors could possibly get around this, because they are suddenly expendable.
I have a lot of respect for voice actors and their work. Many of my favorite games are what they are because of them, because their work managed to bring those characters to life. However, I'm also a little bit torn on that matter, because many of them also decided to go after people using their voice models for modding projects to improve their favorite games. I don't mind if they go against those who try to monetize on that but the majority of that type of work is completely free, from the community, for the community, without any intentions to capitalize on it.
With that in mind I feel I at least lose sympathy for at least some of them, because they kinda act in a similar way as those big companies.
I'm still not a fan of said companies potentially gaining some sort of copyright on those actors voices either though, as they'd do the same thing, not caring about potential fair use.