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by 35208654 1149 days ago
> You can't sue someone for mimicking someone else's voice well enough to be confused for the mimicked creator's voice. Some people can do some voices quite well.

Oh you most certainly can. In fact, you can sue someone for sounding too much like himself. Just ask John Fogerty.

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You can sue anyone for anything, you just can't necessarily win. The court found in favor of Fogerty.
Absolutely right. The fact that it even got a full trial shows there are legal questions here.
But as far as that specific trial - not anymore. Fogerty vs. Fantasy becomes case law, and so any future cases with substantively similar facts are going to be ruled the same way. That's how the law works.