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Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/deepfakes... - June 27th, 2025

As you mention, if copyright law codifies the rights, it then becomes trivial to stick the property rights to self into a trust or other post death entity for the estate to administer and enforce. The nation state policy is the hard part.

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I've seen a few mentions of that law online. It completely overturns existing copyright law and has the potential for all sorts of problems.

ie If you take a photo and some random person is in the background what happens to the copyright of the picture?

Creating a copyright on one's likeness seems pretty messy in regards to that, but there is a somewhat similar idea in German law (and surely other places) that creates similar concerns for using an image or work.

We have a "right to one's image", you generally can't distribute/publish photos with recognizable people without consent. Unless they're truly just "part of the landscape" (background randos), crowds at public events, or of legitimate news/artistic interest.

I'd expect a similar threshold to apply to this Danish solution.

Depends if you are a private citizen or a professional photographer, where you made the photo and how noticible they are in the frame.

In general in Europe laws only set a general intent or outline, and judges take circumstances into account

This is already the law in Hungary.

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