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What is Likeness Rights?

A person's legal right to control commercial use of their face, voice or likeness, often called the right of publicity. Cloning or generating a recognizable person for an ad needs their consent.

their face and voice · their consent

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The team loved a generated lookalike of a famous chef for the pasta campaign, but legal killed it over likeness rights, so they cast a real chef who signed on.

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The layout arm reaches for the face cast and the mic; the lock holds until the person's own key turns it, and only then does the arm lift them out.

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Go through the shot list in your creative tool for likeness rights issues and flag any shot that shows, or sounds like, a real, recognizable person who has not given consent.

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