Right Of Publicity

Right of publicity is a legal right that protects individuals from unauthorized commercial use of their name, image, likeness, or voice. In the context of AI governance, this matters because generative AI systems trained on public data or used to create synthetic media can inadvertently or deliberately reproduce a person's distinctive characteristics without consent, creating liability for organizations that deploy such systems. Compliance teams need policies governing how AI models are trained and what outputs they generate, especially in regulated industries like entertainment, advertising, and financial services where personality-based marketing carries particular legal and reputational risk.

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Corporate PolicyUS2026-10-06

ChatGPT Adds Real Cartoonists' Signatures to Fake New Yorker Art

OpenAI's ChatGPT image generator has been producing New Yorker-style cartoons falsely signed with the real pen names of more than 15 cartoonists, without their permission or compensation. A Nieman Journalism Lab investigation confirmed the behavior and notified OpenAI, which added a partial guardrail but had not fully stopped the outputs by publication. Conde Nast's licensing deal with OpenAI never granted permission to replicate individual cartoonists' signatures.

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