The actual celebrities are probably smart enough to not want to invoke the Streisand effect.
Surprised there isn’t a more concrete example from like a case of a lookalike celebrity doing porn by now.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Surprised there isn’t a more concrete example from like a case of a lookalike celebrity doing porn by now.
The actual celebrities are probably smart enough to not want to invoke the Streisand effect.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Trouble would be, if you did that, you’d really want to be leaning in to the fact that it actually was or very much resembled x specific celebrity and that’s probably when you’d have crossed the line in to unauthorised use of their likeness. If your porn production has nothing to market it as being something people want to watch because the star looks like someone in particular then it’s just one of a million other pornos.
It’s also be legally dicier since it seems that there’s plenty of grey area from the examples people have cited where celebrities successfully litigated against unauthorised use of their likeness and since it’s porn they’ll be so much more upset about it and courts likely a lot less sympathetic to your defence given just how damaging and upsetting it would be for the litigant. At least of it’s using a different actor for a character in a sequel you can still sell people on how much like the character your chosen star is and so even if you chose someone that looked just like the last actor there’s the whole aura around the franchise and the love for the character itself that can help you market it as being basically the same person without having to say it is and getting in to trouble.