Tag: Actors

House Hearing on AI Takes Seriously the Dangers of Transferring Rights to a Person’s Voice and Likeness

Last Friday, February 2nd, the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet considered what, if anything, to do about AI and the unauthorized use of a person's voice and likeness.  The hearing was held in Los Angeles to coincide with Grammys weekend. The hearing focused in part on the recently proposed No AI...
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New York Right of Publicity Bill Resurrected Again

Once again as the New York legislature nears the end of its term for the year, the Assembly is trying to push through an ill-thought-out right of publicity bill without allowing for hearings and public debate on the bill. An amended version of the bill was introduced yesterday. The amended version suffers from most of...
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Reanimating Actors and the Dangers of a Transferable Right of Publicity

In "Only Robin Wright Should Own Robin Wright," I consider the dangers of the digital reanimation of actors and the creation of a transferable right to one's own name, likeness, and voice. This is the third post on The Volokh Conspiracy considering various issues raised by my just released book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined...
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