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Compliance: EU AI Act, digital replica consent, and platform QC

AI localization lives or dies on three compliance questions: is the AI use disclosed, is the voice consented, and does the file pass the platform contract. This page answers all three the way we answer them at contracting, with the obligation split stated honestly. The short version: the disclosure ships in every deliverable, the consent chain is warranted in the Terms and checked before you commit, and the QC numbers are measured, not promised.

Is Fonti Studio compliant with the EU AI Act?

Yes, for the obligations that sit with the producer of an AI dub. From 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires AI-generated or AI-manipulated audio to be disclosed: machine-readable marking in the content itself, and a clear disclosure to the viewer by whoever deploys it. Every Fonti Studio dub ships with an imperceptible audio watermark in the dub audio and a header comment in subtitle source files (Terms Art. 11.2), plus draft consumer-disclosure language the distributor can put on the deck. We mark the file; you tell the viewer; both halves are covered with the deliverable as shipped.

Does Fonti Studio meet the SAG-AFTRA 2026 digital replica requirements?

The 2026 SAG-AFTRA TV/Theatrical Agreement adds foreign-language dubbing to the digital-replica consent regime. Those rules bind producers and signatories, not localization vendors, so no vendor can truthfully claim to be "SAG-AFTRA certified". What we do instead is keep your clearance chain intact: we clone the original cast only, the buyer warrants written cast consent covering AI voice use for the target languages and territories (Terms Art. 6.2), and we review the relevant clause of your cast agreement free of charge, before you commit, and tell you whether it covers an AI dub and what wording is missing if it does not.

Whose consent is required to clone a voice?

The performer's, always. Fonti Studio clones original cast voices from the master you licensed, never local dub actors, voice artists, or any third party (Terms Art. 7.1, binding and non-negotiable). That policy is what keeps deliveries clear of the 2025 Berlin District Court ruling, which awarded €4,000 per cloned dub-actor voice used without consent, and of Italy's ANAD clause, which is stricter still.

How does the human-in-the-loop review actually work?

The pipeline is automated; the accountability is not. Every delivery is reviewed by a named senior editor before the file leaves the building, and their initials go in the file header. For subtitles that review sits on top of an independent cross-model verification pass (a second model checks the first model's faithfulness, cue by cue) and a naturalness pass adjudicated by a human. For dubs, every line passes per-cue gates: pitch scanned against the character, every rendered line round-trip transcribed to confirm it says its own script, speaker identity confirmed on picture, and a human listen pass ranked by risk. No file ships on pipeline output alone.

What platform QC standards does a delivery pass?

Subtitles are authored against the Netflix Timed Text spec and the BBC Subtitle Guidelines and verified by automated conformance checks before delivery: ≤42 characters per line, ≤2 lines, ≤20 characters per second, minimum durations, 2-frame gaps, zero overlaps. The reference delivery, The Last Kumite (2024), shipped French and Dutch at 0 spec errors across 1,212 cues per language. Dubs are mixed against your M&E and mastered to the destination spec with integrated loudness, true peak, and loudness range measured and reported. And if a platform ever rejects a file we shipped, we take their QC report and fix it free until it passes.

How are the master and its data handled?

Under GDPR, with the processing documented in a published Data Processing Agreement (Article 28): masters encrypted at rest, EU hosting, purge on written request, sub-processors listed, international transfers under adequacy or Standard Contractual Clauses. Cast voice data is processed only to render the ordered dub. Your master never trains a model and never leaves our infrastructure. NDA on request before you upload; details on the security page.

In het kort, in het Nederlands

Voldoet AI-nasynchronisatie van Fonti Studio aan de EU AI Act?

Ja, voor de verplichtingen die bij de producent van de nasynchronisatie liggen. Artikel 50 van de EU AI Act vereist vanaf 2 augustus 2026 dat AI-gegenereerde audio als zodanig kenbaar wordt gemaakt. Elke Fonti-dub bevat een onhoorbaar audiowatermerk en een markering in de ondertitelbestanden, plus voorbeeldtekst voor de kijkersdisclosure, zodat de distributeur stroomafwaarts aan artikel 50 kan voldoen.

Is er menselijke controle op het eindresultaat?

Ja, op elke levering. De pipeline is geautomatiseerd, de verantwoordelijkheid niet: een met naam genoemde eindredacteur keurt elk bestand goed voordat het vertrekt, ondertitels krijgen een onafhankelijke controleronde en dubs doorlopen per regel technische controles plus een menselijke luistercontrole.

En bref, en français

Le doublage IA de Fonti Studio est-il conforme à l’AI Act européen ?

Oui, pour les obligations qui incombent au producteur du doublage. Depuis le 2 août 2026, l’article 50 du règlement européen sur l’IA impose de signaler les contenus audio générés par IA. Chaque doublage Fonti est livré avec un filigrane audio imperceptible, un marquage dans les fichiers de sous-titres et un texte de divulgation prêt à l’emploi pour le distributeur.

Qui donne son consentement pour le clonage de voix ?

Les interprètes du film. Fonti Studio clone uniquement les voix de la distribution originale, jamais celles de comédiens de doublage locaux, et le contrat exige un consentement écrit de chaque interprète couvrant les langues et territoires visés. Une vérification humaine nommée valide chaque livraison.

The contractual language behind this page is published in full: General Terms and Conditions (cast-consent warranty, original-cast-only commitment, AI-use disclosure), Data Processing Agreement, and Service Level Agreement.