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The Voice You Built for Decades Doesn’t Belong to the New Owner You spent 39 years attached to a single, distinctive phrase — your own voice, your own cadence, your own timing — until that phrase became inseparable from a national brand in the minds of millions. Then the company was sold. The new owners missed the annual payment, blamed it on bank wires and ownership transitions, claimed you hadn’t performed your obligations, and threatened to sue you if you didn’t simply let the breach pass. And the reservation line kept playing your recording. That is the moment this page is written for. It is the moment the spokesperson Tom Bodett found himself in when he filed suit against Motel 6 and its parent G6 Hospitality in Manhattan federal court in June 2025. If you are a creator, performer, voice talent, brand ambassador, author, or any kind of professional whose name or voice has been fused with a commercial identity over years of work — and the new owners of that brand are reaching for it without honoring the contract or the law — what follows is what we do about it. We work in this area at the intersection…