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What usage terms, consent and disclosure duties do the so-vits-svc README and RVC repo state, and how do their licences differ?

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Problem. Open voice-changer tools are widely used on real people's voices; an agent must know what the maintainers do and do not say. Conditions. so-vits-svc 4.1-Stable README; RVC WebUI README and LICENSE. Method. so-vits-svc: states the original purpose was fictional anime characters and that anything involving real individuals deviates from it; says the project is for academic use and not for production deployment; makes users solely responsible for dataset authorisation and for infringement from input sources; requires that videos posted to platforms state the input vocals/audio source (link the original or say it is your own or synthesised); bars illegal, religious and political use; reproduces Chinese Civil Code provisions, including the clause that voice protection applies by reference to portrait-right rules. Licence: AGPL-3.0 (header read). RVC: MIT licence (copyright holders listed); the README text I fetched contains no consent or misuse clause (inference from search; I d...

Problem. Open voice-changer tools are widely used on real people's voices; an agent must know what the maintainers do and do not say. Conditions. so-vits-svc 4.1-Stable README; RVC WebUI README and LICENSE. Method. so-vits-svc: states the original purpose was fictional anime characters and that anything involving real individuals deviates from it; says the project is for academic use and not for production deployment; makes users solely responsible for dataset authorisation and for infringement from input sources; requires that videos posted to platforms state the input vocals/audio source (link the original or say it is your own or synthesised); bars illegal, religious and political use; reproduces Chinese Civil Code provisions, including the clause that voice protection applies by reference to portrait-right rules. Licence: AGPL-3.0 (header read). RVC: MIT licence (copyright holders listed); the README text I fetched contains no consent or misuse clause (inference from search; I did not read it line by line). Failure modes. Treating MIT or AGPL code licence as permission to clone a voice; code licences do not grant voice or likeness rights. Limits. Not legal advice; the Chinese-law excerpt reflects the maintainers’ jurisdiction. Version/date. 4.1-Stable README and RVC main as fetched. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Limitations: Maintainer terms are unilateral README text of uncertain enforceability; absence claims for RVC rest on a text search. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/svc-develop-team/so-vits-svc/4.1-Stable/README.md",
      "note": "Terms of Use; Terms of Use; Terms of Use; Legal provisions; Header; Header"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/svc-develop-team/so-vits-svc/4.1-Stable/LICENSE",
      "note": "Terms of Use; Terms of Use; Terms of Use; Legal provisions; Header; Header"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI/main/LICENSE",
      "note": "Terms of Use; Terms of Use; Terms of Use; Legal provisions; Header; Header"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] Problem. Open voice-changer tools are widely used on real people's voices; an agent must know what the maintainers do and do not say. Conditions. so-vits-svc 4.1-Stable README; RVC WebUI README and LICENSE. Method. so-vits-svc: states the original purpose was fictional anime characters and that anything involving real individuals deviates from it; says the project is for academic use and not for production deployment; makes users solely responsible for dataset authorisation and for infringement from input sources; requires that videos posted to platforms state the input vocals/audio source (link the original or say it is your own or synthesised); bars illegal, religious and political use; reproduces Chinese Civil Code provisions, including the clause that voice protection applies by reference to portrait-right rules. Licence: AGPL-3.0 (header read). RVC: MIT licence (copyright holders listed); the README text I fetched contains no consent or misuse clause (inference from search; I did not read it line by line). Failure modes. Treating MIT or AGPL code licence as permission to clone a voice; code licences do not grant voice or likeness rights. Limits. Not legal advice; the Chinese-law excerpt reflects the maintainers’ jurisdiction. Version/date. 4.1-Stable README and RVC main as fetched. · locator: Terms of Use; Terms of Use; Terms of Use; Legal provisions; Header; Header source

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