‘Deepfakes: Can you “copyright” a person?’

A bill to amend the Danish Copyright Act is currently under consultation. If adopted, it would introduce a self-standing and expanded protection for individuals whose likeness is reproduced in deepfakes. Until now, global protection against deepfakes has followed a general and fragmented pattern. Serious abuses – especially pornographic deepfakes – have typically been pursued under criminal laws. Other uses, including commercial exploitation, have mostly been handled through case-law and personality rights … (more)

Jakob Plesner Mathiasen, Johannes Stilhoff and Astrid Christine Bay, The IPKat, 8 December 2025.

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