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Denmark has created a new law for exactly this reason. You are entitled to your own likeness. I'm unaware of other countries, but I remember reading about the Denmark one

In the US there is a "right of publicity" that is based on state law, typically for commercial uses. There are also some laws depending on locality criminalizing deepfakes for revenge porn. Some countries use copyright law to the same end.

The "doppelganger problem" is really why this is not an easy issue to answer. If someone gets exclusive rights to a specific face, who is to say another person naturally having a similar face isn't being wronged? How close is too close? What about similar names? And should that really be protected after death (which copyright and trademark and some publicity laws allow)?

AFAIK Denmark is the only country with this kind of legislation on the table.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes-denmark-copyright-law-artificial-intelligence

Yes, but my understanding is that the bar to clear for a successful suit is a lot lower for trademark violation vs 'unauthorized use of likeness' or similar.

Rape culture type shit

Implying Sam Altman has shame is a hilarious concept.

The amount of money these companies have is disproportionate to the amount of punishment they receive when they break a law. People look at the victim and think why should she get billions (which would be a truly proportional punishment) just for them using a voice that sounds like hers. Okay fine. Then give her a commensurate amount and put the rest into a legal defense fund to help others who were harmed. But either way, the company should be proportionately punished to deter them or others from doing same again.

That doctor thing has already happened. I saw a recent one thats basically exactly what youre describing but i cant recall his name to find it again

We’ve already seen dead actors being brought back through AI usage, I think Val Kilmer was one of them. She might not have the most unique looks but even I can recognize her; someone stealing her likeness to make sales is very possible and would have huge repercussions, especially with how culty her base can be.

Ultimately it should be thoroughly illegal if someone hasn’t opted into it and the legal battle should be telling the people who used the likeness should be told to go fuck themselves.

Taylor Swift in particular has had thousands of pornographic pictures generated of her, which is fucked up.

Yeah this is one of those ones like:

She's not wrong, but also, she can get bent.

It does however set a precedent for other celebrities and people going forward so I'm kinda with her on this one. If there's one person who can make a stink about this and have it matter, it's probably her.

It would have been better if it was one of the likeable celebrities. Like Keanu Reeves.

But I guess you take what you can get.

I think that hatred is better projected at all the venues signing exclusivity deals with Ticketmaster so that other companies can't compete and the politicians allowing the monopoly. Taylor Swift was actually partnered with a competitor to Ticketmaster, AEG, but AEG couldn't sell the tickets due to the mentioned exclusivity deals and had to post them through Ticketmaster.

Or are you saying all artists should stop touring? Because that would kill off so many of them as they can't afford to live off streaming and record sales due to corporate fat cats keeping too much at the record labels

More in line of protecting against synthetic copy cats than piracy but k

That was the nicest way of saying "show your tits !"