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
Likeness rights protect…
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In real work
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.
In the illustration
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.
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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