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by haiku2077 757 days ago
There's legal precedent against the first one. Tom Waits successfully sued Frito Lay after they used a Tom Waits soundalike in a commercial.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-09-me-238-st...

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if i recall that only won because they contacted Tom first and he said no, which isn't what happened with OAI/SJ