https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/uk-news/2024/09/09/legal-battle-over-peter-cushings-image-in-star-wars-to-go-to-trial-judge-rules
Cushing played imperial commander Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in 1977.
To be clear, this isn't someone actually connected to the Cushing estate saying "hey man, that's not cool," because the estate did actually agree back when the film was being made eight years ago; this is some other studio claiming that, actually, it has the exclusive rights to puppeteer Peter Cushing's digital ghost, because of some contract he signed back in the '90s or whatever.
'Cause, y'know, nothing quite says "justice at work" like watching the all-consuming media conglomerate duke it out with the copyright trolls over who gets to do the deepfakes.
::: spoiler ... Interesting that Disney has decided they should be allowed to dispute obscure fine print buried in a contract nobody could possibly remember signing... :::
All companies should be banned, I’m going to delete all copyright law and replace it with asking the king (me) and a man with a big hammer. Thanks for coming to my ted talk x