In this 30 minute podcast, I give a very high-level tour through the concepts underpinning Personality Rights.
✨ recorded as part of a guest lecture at the University of Galway | Ollscoil na Gaillimhe. Many thanks to Dr Abigail Rekas JD, PhD for the invitation to contribute!
Here’s a breakdown of what I cover:
00:00 Street photography in Germany - https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kunsturhg/__22.html
02:15 What are rights of personality?
02:50 Emily Ratajkowski gets sued for copyright infringement for posting a picture… of herself https://academic.oup.com/jiplp/article-abstract/15/12/953/6042357
04:30 Marques Brownlee’s voice is cloned by AI https://x.com/mkbhd/status/1845816134538244172?s=46
06:10 What are social media companies doing about this? s. 230 CDA of 1996 (U.S.) and the Online Safety Act 2023 (UK)
10:00 Tech companies behaving badly? ChatGPT-4o and Scarlett Johansson https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/27/scarlett-johansson-openai-legal-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt
11:45 Scarlett and intimate image-based abuse (“deepfake pornography”) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/31/scarlett-johansson-fake-ai-generated-sex-videos-nothing-can-stop-someone-cutting-pasting-my-image/
12:00 Criminal, sexual deepfakes are one thing. What about other harms?
13:50 Commercial misappropriation - personality rights can cover publicity, false endorsements, consumer protection, and passing off.
14:23 Drake’s Taylor Made Freestyle “featuring” Tupac Shakur https://soundcloud.com/green-moon-649765998/tayldrake-taylor-made-freestyle-kendrick-lamar-diss
15:15 The tort of passing off and its limitations under Robyn (Rihanna) Fenty v Arcadia Group https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/fenty-others-v-arcadia-others1.pdf
17:00 Privacy and reputational harms to one’s dignity (and what does “dignity” mean?)
19:22 Privacy invasion in unexpected places with Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers Ltd https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200304/ldjudgmt/jd040506/campbe-1.htm
20:00 Context and nuance are key
21:17 Balancing regulation and protection against creativity and innovation
21:49 Photos of Donald Trump on the golf course
22:10 Keanu Reeves’ digitally manipulated crying scene https://www.wired.com/story/keanu-reeves-chad-stahelski-interview/
24:00 This isn’t just an issue for celebrities
24:23 Is it “ethical” to apply filters to selfies?
25:25 choice, control, autotomy
27:00 my dream? Transparent contracts and ensuring that those who are in power are accountable
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