Creator Rights & Likeness
5 gains2 Traces13 problems
Every measured gain and problem on the record for this topic, newest first. Updated .
One square per record, darker for stronger evidence:Evidence: 1 high8 moderate11 emerging
AI, creator rights and likeness
A Trace is one record with both a gain and a problem, so it counts on both sides: 7 records show a gain and 15 show a problem. 23 context records are in the record list but not counted, because they report no measured gain or problem.
| Evidence | Gain side | Problem side |
|---|---|---|
| HighStrong study design, backed by at least two independent sources | 0 | 1 |
| ModerateA measured study or an official source | 2 | 8 |
| EmergingEarly, small, unreviewed or reported second-hand | 5 | 6 |
By type of evidence: 11 news reports; 4 regulatory or legal actions; 4 investigations by reporters; 1 survey. How evidence is scored
A Tokyo court ruled that a performer's voice has protection comparable to publicity rights, giving Japanese performers a legal route against AI voice imitation when it is used to exploit its commercial appeal.
An image tool let a teenager create a character that spread worldwide and became a revenue-generating franchise across video, merchandise and games.
Ogilvy and CAA say their ECHO platform could cut celebrity ad production costs by as much as 75 percent and let talent take on more endorsements without much more time on set.
The owners of Presley's catalogue allege Anthropic trained Claude on 274 songs without permission and that Claude produced infringing outputs, putting rights holders' control and licensing at risk.
A hacker used an employee's credentials to reach Suno's source code, which reportedly showed the AI music generator scraped decades of audio for training.
Actress Ananya Panday told the Bombay High Court that products and platforms used her photographs and AI-generated images and videos without permission, and the court ordered the material removed on an interim basis.
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This peer-reviewed paper examines ethical implications of applying artificial intelligence to Indigenous musical heritage of the Mijikenda communities on Kenya's coast. It finds a divergence between AI's extractive logic and the principles of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, with risks of decontextualising sacred…
Journal of Visual and Performing Arts
A May 2026 law review article examines mixed musical works that contain a blend of human and generative AI elements, arguing they occupy a copyright 'Dead Man's Land' in the United States.
Published January 2026 in AI & SOCIETY, this peer-reviewed paper examined AI artistic collaborations, art competition controversies, interviews with professionals, and gallery experiments to test how generative models…
On 2026-07-10, The Guardian reported that London-based Particle 6 plans a feature film Misaligned starring AI-generated performer Tilly Norwood, billed as set inside the Tillyverse, a surreal digital world located…
On 17 November 2025, Paul McCartney released an almost completely silent studio recording as a bonus track on the protest vinyl Is This What We Want?, joining other artists releasing silence to oppose AI companies…
A hacker gained access to Suno's internal source code by using an employee's credentials, and the code review that followed exposed the company's audio collection practices for its AI music generator.
On 15 July 2026, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced a new office of AI and said Australia will legislate the strongest possible protection for creatives against unlicensed use of their work to…
On 13 July 2026 The Guardian reported that Australian producer Josh Fawaz's cover of Madonna's Like a Prayer reached No 1 on the National Radio Airplay chart and amassed 35m Spotify streams, prompting…
A March 2026 peer-reviewed paper in The Journal of World Intellectual Property asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights in the UK.
By June 2026, generative models such as GPT-4, Stable Diffusion and Mid journey were described as capable of producing entire works independently, while India's Copyright Act of 1957 remained drafted…
By July 2026, a peer-reviewed paper examined how proliferation of AI deepfake technologies allows unauthorized use of a person's likeness, including manipulation of images, voices and behaviours and…
By July 2026, researchers examined singing data collection as AI voice synthesis advanced, analyzing three singing datasets with the Ethically Aligned Stakeholder Elicitation framework.
Members of the UK performing arts union Equity voted 99% in favour of refusing to be digitally scanned on set, a common practice that captures an actor's likeness for future use.
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