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In response to "apparently one main AI sticking point is whether studios should get to reanimate dead actors for free at will -- (link)" by hollywood big shot

Yeah, no. The estate of a dead celeb controls the likeness of that dead celeb.

Posted by Mop🧹 (aka rburriel) Nov 6 '23, 19:37

You wanna put Elvis or James Dean on a plate? Then pay up. What makes studios think they can just take old material and use it to create new content?

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whatever contracts they may have had with the studios when they were alive likely didn't contemplate this type of re-use of their footage - hollywood big shot Nov 6, 19:42 1
- (it's hard to understate how pissed the actors are by this clause, especially coming at the 11th hour when they were expecting a done deal) -- (link) - hollywood big shot Nov 7, 01:52

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