Filmmaker James Cameron and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. based the likeness of an “Avatar” character on the features of indigenous actress Q’orianka Kilcher without her permission, she said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
Wouldn’t be surprised if someone is pulling strings to push this case specifically to force a court to decide how different a “likeness” needs to be so that all the AI production companies have a line in the sand they can cuddle up close to and still feel like they get to keep all their profits out of the hands of greedy actors and safely in the hands of hard-working producers and CEOs… Whether that is paying her to file the suit, or paying Cameron to have said it in an interview to give reason, or hell, both.
Wouldn’t be surprised if someone is pulling strings to push this case specifically to force a court to decide how different a “likeness” needs to be so that all the AI production companies have a line in the sand they can cuddle up close to and still feel like they get to keep all their profits out of the hands of greedy actors and safely in the hands of hard-working producers and CEOs… Whether that is paying her to file the suit, or paying Cameron to have said it in an interview to give reason, or hell, both.