Mark speaks about about use of actor's images after death in fashion law blog

1/2/2017

The death of actress Carrie Fisher raised the issue of whether her name and likness could be resurrected after her death for future Star War movies.

Virtual characters have been used before such as when when Universal Pictures combined CGI and previous footage for Paul Walker's role in 2015's "Furious 7" after his death in a car crash.

Disney gave a supporting role to a digital version of actor Peter Cushing in Rogue One, after he died in 1994.

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