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Comment on If a famous person or character's likeness is copyrighted and you need to license it to use it, could you find a real-life lookalike and say you modelled your character off of *that* person instead?

blueamigafan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I’m sure they did this for a james bond game once, they couldn’t get pierce brosnans likeness so they used his stunt double, and with it being the PS1 era the lower res graphics helped with the likeness

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Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve never heard of that, and I’m not sure I believe it. For a few reasons: 1, Pierce Brosnan did lend his likeness to a bunch of PS1 Bond games, 2, if they used a look alike and presented it as Brosnan it would still be Brosnan’s likeness. 3, they probably had his likeness as part of a greater contract whether or not he personally turned up for the production of said games.

Crispin Glover sued when they used prosthetics on an actor to look like him in the back to the future sequel that he wasn’t hired for. Just because they don’t use your face doesn’t mean it’s not unauthorised use of your likeness.

In one or more of the Buffy games, Sarah Michelle Gellar didn’t turn up to help make the game but she still would’ve received royalties for her likeness.

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