Val Kilmer will be the latest Hollywood star to be resurrected by AI. The acting legend, who died last year at age 65, will star in the drama As Deep As the Grave.
Val Kilmer will be the latest Hollywood star to be resurrected by AI. The acting legend, who died last year at age 65, will star in the drama As Deep As the Grave.
So a cartoon character is copyrighted for 75 years after the author dies, but someone’s actual visual clone can just be brought back from the dead and made to do whatever?
The Kilmer estate is signing off on it because they feel it’s an important film Val wanted to contribute to. Doesn’t make it any less gross for me, but at least there’s some oversight to his image I guess.
That just means someone is getting paid and doesn’t give a fuck about Val Kilmer
Then they should have insisted that they mupify his corpse
Nice. I’m putting that in my will.
It’s the rights to a person’s likeness that can be made into a legal property that heirs can control.
This is why you don’t see much marketing with, say, Elvis Presley’s actual face (he was an actor - marginally capable for certain, but one nonetheless) unless it will be allowed by his heirs.
Look at it from the angle that an actor’s FACE is their performative trademark, in the same way a singer’s distinctive voice is theirs, or a writer’s words, or a musician’s composition.
Not just likeness, Scarlett Johansson successfully sued a Fr*nch author for portraying her in a novel.
Why the fuck are you censoring “French”?
GTFO! I’mma gonna look this one up!
Thanks!
OpenAI wanted to use her voice as one of the voices for ChatGPT, she said no, they got someone else to record it where it sounded eerily similar to her in Her, she sued, and they dropped it out of ‘respect’ for her.