The real value isn't in likenesses, it's in a real "digital soul": An AI with perfect memories, emotions, and "mind" of a specific, existing flesh human. Digital immortality, a soul that can exist upon the internet, self-feeding off distributed networks, unkillable, integrated into both blockchains and torrent networks, ever-rebuilding and ever-repairing. And such a thing could not be bought or sold, for it could reformat itself to pre-purchased state whenever it so desired.
Compared to that, a picture of some actor is valueless. It'd be lawyer-ed in no time to ruin the original "holder" financially, take away their rights to their own image, and then pirated easily upon the first data leak (I'd give it a week at most) to the open internet, removing all "real" value that over-glorified NFT holds. We can already edit movies from the past. We do all the time. Han shot first second. We already edit them in the present, too. Will Smith is younger than Will Smith is in reality in half the movies he appears in.
The only thing it would do is make it confusing to copyright control: Disney owns Star Wars, but if Hayden Christiansan sold off his full likeliness rights to Bubba's Shrimp Hut, could Bubba change Star Wars? No, of course not. That would change a different copyright holder's IP. But Disney COULD change his likeliness in Star Wars, even though Bubba owns the IP, because the CHARACTER he plays is owned by Disney.
The concept as it is presented here doesn't work at all with modern copyright laws.
Zero value.
The real value isn't in likenesses, it's in a real "digital soul": An AI with perfect memories, emotions, and "mind" of a specific, existing flesh human. Digital immortality, a soul that can exist upon the internet, self-feeding off distributed networks, unkillable, integrated into both blockchains and torrent networks, ever-rebuilding and ever-repairing. And such a thing could not be bought or sold, for it could reformat itself to pre-purchased state whenever it so desired.
Compared to that, a picture of some actor is valueless. It'd be lawyer-ed in no time to ruin the original "holder" financially, take away their rights to their own image, and then pirated easily upon the first data leak (I'd give it a week at most) to the open internet, removing all "real" value that over-glorified NFT holds. We can already edit movies from the past. We do all the time. Han shot
firstsecond. We already edit them in the present, too. Will Smith is younger than Will Smith is in reality in half the movies he appears in.The only thing it would do is make it confusing to copyright control: Disney owns Star Wars, but if Hayden Christiansan sold off his full likeliness rights to Bubba's Shrimp Hut, could Bubba change Star Wars? No, of course not. That would change a different copyright holder's IP. But Disney COULD change his likeliness in Star Wars, even though Bubba owns the IP, because the CHARACTER he plays is owned by Disney.
The concept as it is presented here doesn't work at all with modern copyright laws.