Robert Downey Jr. plans to sue any Hollywood executive who signs off on the creation of his digital replica.
He should do it himself and then it’s protected by copyright after he’s dead.
Oh snap RDJ with the ban hammer! I think Hollywood might be worried now /s
The whole big tech ethos is to figure out the intersection of against-the-spirit-of-the-law and within-the-letter-of-the-law, and colonize the fuck out of that spot.
So they’ll probably just create a replica through means that allow them to claim they didn’t use his likeness directly, and call it “Rodert Upney Sr.”
THIS SUMMER, Bobert Sideney III IS…Metal Fella
It’s Bruce Lee/Bruce Li/Bruce Le/Bruce Lai/Dragon Lee all over again.
God, this is so painfully true. Microsoft really set the precedent for the industry, often straying over the line into illegality; if Bush hadn’t given directions that resulted in the ruling being overturned, they’d be several smaller companies now, and without their near-monopoly.
Fucking Bush.
So what keeps someone from running a Robert Downey Jr. lookalike contest, then giving the winner a cash prize in exchange for their likeness?
“You’ll be dead,” Swisher noted, to which Downey replied: “But my law firm will still be very active.”
You can have a will and an estate, but if your estate fucks you over is there anything anyone can do about it?
