Comment by xpe
2 years ago
> It's extremely well established in law, you can't approach someone to voice an advert for you, get told no, and then hire an impersonator to do it.
Can you explain and/or cite the legal basis here? What cases? What law?
2 years ago
> It's extremely well established in law, you can't approach someone to voice an advert for you, get told no, and then hire an impersonator to do it.
Can you explain and/or cite the legal basis here? What cases? What law?
It's termed personality rights[1] and this would be appropriation of her likeness. There's good reason that famous actors actually get commercial work and we don't just hire soundalikes all the time.
[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#United_Stat...