The move comes months after actor Matthew McConaughey filed similar trademarks to protect his likeness against unauthorized replications.
  • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3 hours

    Let the billionaires fight eachother. And be all asshurt over it. People should start making AI Slop Taylor Swift songs and watch the Streisand effect follow.

  • jobbies@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4 hours

    Using copyright to prevent pirating, what a novel idea! I am shaking in my boots! No pirating for me!!

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4 hours

      More in line of protecting against synthetic copy cats than piracy but k

    • Kairos@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3 hours

      The headline and article have zero relation with Swift’s actions. It’s pure speculation. I’m surprised she hasn’t done that yet.

  • WagnasT@piefed.worldEnglish
    7 hours

    I feel like your likeness should be protected by default, is it not?

    To be clear, not under copy protection but is there some other protection from impersonation such as fraud?

    • piwakawakas@lemmy.nzEnglish
      6 hours

      Denmark has created a new law for exactly this reason. You are entitled to your own likeness. I’m unaware of other countries, but I remember reading about the Denmark one

    • NekoKoneko@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      In the US there is a “right of publicity” that is based on state law, typically for commercial uses. There are also some laws depending on locality criminalizing deepfakes for revenge porn. Some countries use copyright law to the same end.

      The “doppelganger problem” is really why this is not an easy issue to answer. If someone gets exclusive rights to a specific face, who is to say another person naturally having a similar face isn’t being wronged? How close is too close? What about similar names? And should that really be protected after death (which copyright and trademark and some publicity laws allow)?

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6 hours

        You can be as close as you want, as long as you don’t exploit it or cause confusion. For example, Apple Computer and Apple Records coexisted for decades because they operated in separate industries. It only became a problem when Apple Computer started Apple Music.

    • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
      7 hours

      Yes, but my understanding is that the bar to clear for a successful suit is a lot lower for trademark violation vs ‘unauthorized use of likeness’ or similar.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
    6 hours

    So now if someone posts photos or videos of TS on Instagram she can sue IG? Or what?

    The global pop superstar on Friday filed trademark applications for two audio clips of her voice

    So it only applies to those 2 audio clips?

    This is terrible reporting.