The American legal system has long treated identity as a property-like interest.
Protecting Right of Publicity In the AI Era
Rights of publicity now sit in a structural mismatch with the generative AI technology around them. Each unauthorized commercial use would in theory violate the right of publicity — but in practice, detecting it, identifying its source, and obtaining a remedy costs more than almost any individual claim is worth. And the volume keeps multiplying.

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