personality rights theme

also known as: the right to one's own likeness

We are made to ponder to what extent or for what purposes it might be wrong to use someone else's physical appearance. Would it be okay to make a film in which it looked like a famous actor appeared even if they hadn't permitted it?

7 total · 2 choice · 1 major · 4 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
ds93x08 choice Quark tried to make a holographic sex slave out of recordings of Kira
tng4x16 choice Geordi simulated Leah on the holodeck.
blackmirror6x01 major The viewer is made to ponder the limits to which the Streamberry streaming service should be allowed to go in using a CGI likeness of Salma Hayek in their productions, whether or not she had contractually agreed to sign over those rights. For instance, Salma had explicitly signed a contract making it permissible to depict her CGI likeness taking a dump on a church floor, but she was outraged when they did it. Personality rights ought to be inalienable to some extent.
ds91x16 minor the Jadzia from Julian's mind conjured into reality
futurama3x15 minor Lucy Liu asserted this right.
movie: Babylon 5: The River Of Souls (1998) minor Jacob came into conflict with the Babylon 5 authorities when it came to light that Jacob was suing peoples' photographs without their consent as the bases for the sex holograms in his brothel.
tng3x21 minor Barclay used crew-member identities on the holodeck.