They won't care. Disney breached it’s contract with Robin Williams in the 90's for advertisement. That's why he didn't voice the Genie in the 2nd Aladdin movie. The guy was alive then, so imagine what they will do when an actor is dead

even if they're ok with it, they could always change their mind later and be stuck in a contract or something. gross and wrong all around

They're better off dead than alive to exploit

MatPat isn't destroying Disney's reputation, THEY are, with their total lack of ethics & morals. He's just shedding light on their BS.

I think we should ALL strive to destroy Disney’s reputation

@@Animebryan2 Yes, he just expose them

@@user-ps2sg8qr2k I like your pfp

@@Animebryan2 Yup, he exposes that rotten mouse for the stinky lil rat it is!

EXACTLY

This is SO TRUE. I never even thought about that!

Disney deserves to live.

TBH I think this is downright unethical since this is a person being used as property.

Agreed. Not many that get to say that before perishing though. But even if, it’s still imo disgust that they can but any words in your mouth, which might tarnish the reputation of the person

@@SergioLeonardoCornejo well if their fine with being used as property then its fine

A dead person also cant turn down a bad movie.

Yeah, for lets say Stan Lee, im fine with him being added to marvel movies because he very clearly would have liked that, but the difference with that vs say a dead matpat advertising diet coke is just a friendly nod vs the other is profiting off them. Yes both support the product and its there correct image, but there is a agenda behind one vs genuine good will.

Do you remember which treehouse of horror? Sounds pretty interesting to see

Not just The Simpsons, but also another Matt Groening IP Futurama covers this in their episode where Fry starts dating a robot version of Lucy Liu whose image was scanned from her living disembodied head. This was revealed as a double whammy because in the 30th Century not only was dating robots highly unlawful, but to use images of dead celebrities or disembodied heads as a basis for a holographic projection on the robot was downright creepy.

@@IzoQuartz S20:E4 Treehouse of Horror XIX

@@DecGang10 Huh, that was really good. I'd given up on Simpsons after season 15 or so, but that was really enjoyable! Funny coincidence it had the dead celebrities of Prince and Buzz Aldrin like this Film Theory episode mentions.

Maybe it's time to realize the creators KNEW something, they didn't have to predict. Wolf in sheep's clothing

Were your grandparents Native American may I ask? I know some Native American tribes have this belief

Replying cuz I’m interested in the answr

@@lavenderhuman no, they were Korean. My grandma was their second youngest and I think she was born around the 1940s-50s. Even my grandma is pretty superstitious about a lot of things

@StrastTheFox well yeah in retrospect, but if you’d never seen a camera in your life and you come across one of those old ones with huge lenses, it would look a bit alien no? Like, look at how dogs react to big lenses on cameras. They don’t understand what it is and are often scared.

@@MikaelaKMajorHistory so your comparing your great grandparents to dogs?

yep

yeah. I mean, I'm an actor and I think its pretty weird to be using other actors faces long after their dead.

@@projekttaku1 Really?! Pls notice me!

@@RainierFajardoProduction oh, um, hi I guess.

It’s such a weird concept. You would think you control your own likeness, and I guess you technically do. Once you become a character like that, it’s not “your likeness” I suppose, to simplify the explanation. It’s the likeness of (insert character name here) as played by (actor). It reminds me of one of his videos about copyright law, where no one has the right to post certain fanart pictures since no one owns all of the material/characters involved. This feels similar, neither side should really have absolute control.

why not exploit a corpse for thousands of years?

Why only 1 reply

This is horrifying. I imagine most people sign it without a second thought, it's their 1 life. Not knowing their image could be used by nazis or something in 100 years

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@Logan McGlynn It should just be able to be changed by the person at any point, no questions asked. No one should be planning on making a movie with your dead face before you die (excluding a documentary maybe) so it's not like you're signing a binding contract that then ruins everything if you pull out.

lol

Keep your comment out of my f*** comment section!

dont read my name!😐

Boo

@@deez6687 💀

agree

yeah. Becoming an actor for me was already pretty hard, and I'd doubt if these were already implemented I'd have become one. I really can't imagine what that's going to be like.

@@projekttaku1 gl mate

@@asghlv5841 thanks. Apparently I'm going to work with marvel on a new project (which is already crazy), but they haven't reported back to me in a while, so I'm anxious.

@@projekttaku1 shake my statues hand please I am in a bird

That’s a good theory

Wait.... Why does that actually make sense!

Up!

As they should. Good for them.

That's good to hear

He must have been an unusually good father for a celebrity, to inspire such appropriate respect-- the more typical process is "he's dead, call an agent!"

@@stevenscott2136 trueee

Yeah this is what I was thinking

Yeah, and I'd imagine the real kicker is going to be when likenesses start hitting public domain: If companies can just cast long-dead celebrities for free, how many companies are going to go out of their way to hire real actors instead of just "casting" royalty-free dead celebrities instead? And moreover, how much less will companies be willing to pay their remaining living actors when they have that option?

For now we are good, hollywood actors and film stars have the effect of dragging away attention in the media and are often used as scapegoats, thats number one reason they wont die out any time soon, people still need role models, thats number two, lets say theoretically, these companies start using every person that has passed likeness in their movies, the backlash will be insane, and even if it wasnt, how fast would it get old? Thats number three.

Looks like it is hard to do now, but in the future? Mel Blanc is not taking jobs away even from the current WB cast.

The market is going to shift from human actors to voice actors. I'm not sure if I necessarily see that as a bad thing. Actual humans are still getting jobs.

Because People were so into that nostalgia bubble that they don't want another actors or not. Just look at hayden christensen and jack lyod

@@davidthirugnanakumar7888 because people hate change, and they have an unhealthy avoidance of it. It’s part of why society will end soon.

I went to one too. I think it’s to show historians and to make money

I would love to see a very meta movie where actors go on strike against studios that will eventually do this.

that has already happened before, the old radio stars who fell out of popularity once visual appearance became important with tv becoming a thing, heck its even possible some of them could retake positions with this now that appearance is no longer mattering anymore

@@John_C_J That certainly would be something I would look into watching.

Especially if they don't have to pay as much to "hire" dead actors. Depending on how the laws develop around this, if they seem that the actors can just be owned by a company it would cost the company zero dollars to just keep using them over and over. It's a cash cow At least, it will be until it suddenly stops working. And by then, the industry would have no young talent because they stopped giving roles (aka, giving them the experience or chance they need to shine) to up and coming actors and they'll have to train up new ones. Oddly enough, Disney has been scrambling to get quality 2D animators because they fired em all years ago and no longer put stock in the medium. Now they're literally offering to fund young animators to hire. Almost like karma.

happened with The Irishman. DeNiro was de-aged instead of a younger actor cast. which is ironic considering DeNiro played a young Marlon Brando in the Godfather 2

I somewhat agree.

I think MatPat talked about this in the last video, but Hollywood is getting more and more centered around IPs than actors so that’s probably gonna happen.

yeah, that would be a problem because the cost difference and time difference

@@rpandya97 However, you don't exactly need to pay a program.

I’m not gonna lie,but people prefer new faces. If they keep using old actors,people will eventually get bored,so I think it’ll be like a cycle of new actors and old actors getting swapped all the time

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It's strange seeing someone say his full first name like that. Especially without his full last name, Matthew Patthew.

It is evidence of the soypunk dystopia.

Not really, because then issues would most likely be either literally reviving people or putting their personalities into robots - something I could very much see in an 80's sci-fi horror - not faking images for entertainment purposes.

Interesting.

@@mangoturtle4257 Nope that’s the company trademark not the person.

@@mangoturtle4257 So, technically, Disney could make his likeness into a trademark, by using it themselves and registering it to themselves, renewing that trademark through new forms of use every few years like how they're trying to keep control of Mickey Mouse without extending copyright for everyone else. The problem there is that it's going to be a lot harder to keep Walt the same way they're keeping Mickey, as it's much easier to make "permuted modifications" of an animated character than a human being.

Another reason copyright and trade mark should go away

@@TheXLAXLimpLungs They shouldn't go away, but they are definitely a good 50 years out of date. Back when copyright/trademark/patent laws were made, the world moved so much slower. Whereas nowadays the same income and benefit they would have gotten from 70+ years is made in 7. Seeing this though is making me think that they need to have different times for different things. And definitely give people the right to take their work and say "When I die, it does too." and lock it out of the public domain with the caveat that they and their estate aren't allowed to touch it either. Because god dang this stuff is not okay and will need to get addressed sooner rather than later.

"what's legal isn't always what's right" - perfectly said.

@@emilykeepsmiling9465 I swear there’s a metal gear rising joke here, but I don’t wanna make it

It’s vice versa* and you used the phrase wrong. The word you’re looking for is _inverse._ That said, I agree with your comment.

I agree as well. Plus, I've seen Wakanda Forever, and they managed to do a great job handling Chadwick Boseman's death by having T'Challa die offscreen and using only flashbacks of him. I figure we need to do the same thing or something similar. I for one would rather honor the deceased by pulling a Wakanda Forever and acknowledge their deaths than have uncanny valley fakes created by CGI. We need to protect the deceased from being used this way. Ladies, gentlemen, and mxs everywhere, join together, unite, and stand to protect those who no longer have a voice to speak..

or learning with pibby

Yass it's the perfect time to! Some irresponsible kid god left with your adopted family is pretty good for theories

dont read my name!😐

It's really fucked up

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Hahahah that will never happen....you don't seem to realize how the government works

Not everybody agrees with that statement. It should be left up to the actors themselves. A lot of them probably would enjoy the idea of their legacy going on.

Maybe it could be turned into a good thing. When for instance a specific amount of the money they made of using a dead actor come to good organisations (children with cancer, etc) , than thats assumingly within the wish of those dead people. And more or less anyone would benefit out of it ?

Look, an actor should be paid for their time as part of compensation for their talent, if the actor is deceased then you can't pay them. Therefore it is invoulontary slavery. This feels so unethical and morally wrong.

@@PygmalionFaciebat Nah, that's using a wrong to justify a right when it could be entirely avoided or applied to someone who's alive. Some actors make WAYYY too much money regardless of their popularity that could be used for what you propose, and it looks better on them as they're actually alive and the ones making that decision, not a company deciding for you.

@@RemedieX Your first sentence doesnt make any argument to prove its claim. Its its ''wrong, because its just wrong'' . Why do i put that much efford in my posting (like my last one - pointing out examples (like wax figures etc) , if i could do it like you the easy way and saying ''you are just wrong..because it should be this and that way.. and you just using the wrong methods to justify this and that'' ... Discussions in internet could be so easy, if i would do it like 99,9% of people do it on internet. I dont know myself why i put that much efford in it - thinking that sculpted out arguments with reasonings behind it, with complex layers of analogies and provings can mean anything - when the opponent can say every time ''haha your thinking is wrong, because its just wrong, because it shouldnt be that way'' . Maybe i dont want to accept, that my opponent is that simple of a thinker - even when every sentence he made screams exactly that. In the end i am just a stupid optimist about the intellect of my ''opponent'' - and thats why i put that much efford in explaining everything in much more detail than 99,9% of people on the internet, assuming that the other one also wants and is capable of diving in the complex matter of a topic - when its just ''i am right, and you are wrong'' for the other person. Somehow this pattern in most of the people is also interesting , i have to admit.

@@PygmalionFaciebat Man your response just screams of a Superiority Complex. Calm down, your comment wasn't clever or smart, and didn't even have good examples, it was pretty shallow. You come off as a little presumptuous kid that thinks his 8th Grade level paragraph is the work of a genius. It's not.

Off topic but i love the idea :D

Uhh you need a life, if this is what you are concerned and think about lol

@@iamextremest Or maybe you should keep your mouth shut. This is a theories channel and they suggested a theory.

@@phoenixcrown9966 don't waste your time dude. They're clearly just a sad little troll who's desperate for attention. Just ignore them.

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There's plenty of Emma Watson deep fakes too.

If you think if this as a demonic contract. Then it is. Since you now technically worl for them beyond death. But now as their puppet with no will of your own. That ain't creepy. Its horrifying.

Its just my opinion but... maybe we can use bitcoin's system to make all of our faces nfts thus legally own our faces and we can even tell whos real and fake by using that. deep fake's problem is about being too real, maybe this idea can fix it

Very cool Mr. Fortnite Blevins

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WHILE still remaining very respectful! MatPat’s ability to control all three at once is honestly amazing.

We already experience it by now: anything that isn't revolutionary gets to be ignored and be forgotten after they peaked their fame just because "it's classic" and "it's nostalgic". Who's the king of pop? Michael Jackson. Who can be the next king of pop? No one and it will be always be Michael Jackson until the end of time. Say otherwise and masses will not agree with you. It's also fairly evident now with the Marvel movies, like how the masses agree that there will be only one Wolverine in their hearts: Hugh Jackman and there will only be one Deadpool in their hearts: Ryan Reynolds. Just look at the reaction of the fans when they heard that Hugh wont be returning as Wolverine in the next character's appearance and will be replaced with someone younger.

@@christiangarcia4925 In a couple of decades when hollywood does another reboot of whatever, the next generation has their own version of who played Wolverine, or Deadpool and a 20 sum Batmans and Batvillians. As for such titles as King of Pop, Prince of Darkness and the likes, it will take some time but I have no doubt some artist in the future will be named that at some point. As they say: The King is dead, long live the King.

I credit myself as the biggest James Dean fan alive today, and if that happens there will be a drama of me fighting the hollywood execs

I think free speech allows for any messages - positive or negative given that they’re not calls to direct violence or imminent harm. I think there was a South Park episode where they had ted bundy, John gacey and Jeffery dalmer acting like the three stooges and killing each other in a comical way. It’s totally allowed??

I'm not sure that would ever be a problem. The ONLY value of a Ted Bundy is the sensationalistic image of a serial killer, so no one of any significance would have a motive to "reform" their image. (Well, okay, Lucas did it with Vader...) The South-Park-style mockery would probably be as far as anyone would have any reason to go. We DO have people reforming the far worse criminals of the political world, but that's been going on for much longer than we've had imaging tech, and there's a whole other level of motivation at work there.

An interesting concept with deep fakes is that of truly factual reporting. What you bring up is interesting but it may be far more upsetting to learn that these technologies could be used to change the message of anything from politics, cartoons, or even a little video from your grandma. People are worried about misinformation now, but do consider how bad it could be if you can LITERALLY put words in others mouths and make it look realistic enough to be taken seriously. Would that be considered slander/libel? Interesting thought

@@wereman08 yea it would, pretty sure if its false and damages the other person materially its illegal

Eventually we are going to see the marketing of movies with new actors as the appeal for people vs revived actors

@@jwilskis4278 The dead actor's families, it's like seeing someone wearing a latex mask of one of your loved ones in a tv show

@@jwilskis4278 you seem like you haven't grasped the meaning of life

@@jwilskis4278 A lot of people care, including the families of said people who are dead.

@@logan_M_ so not that many

But they are resting in peace, because... you know... they're dead

I believe Bob Ross tried doing this, but his business partners used some shady tactics to void the will, which is why we have Bob Ross merchandise and stuff today. The family of course wasn't (and still isn't) happy about that and have been fighting it ever since

Ultimately, it depends on the lawyers... including the ones in the relevant legislature, if they decide to get involved by making a new law on the subject.

Your will can be contested and your signature dies with you. It's kinda fucked how easily your will can be tossed away in certain circumstances

At 4:00 and as with SO MUCH ELSE, Robin Williams saw this coming and SPECIFICALLY WROTE IN HIS WILL THAT, "NO ONE MAY USE MY LIKENESS, VOICE OR ANY CHARACTER I'VE CREATED/PLAYED/PORTRAYED AFTER MY DEATH FOR MARKETING, COMMERCIAL OR FILM ADAPTATIONS." Boom.

@@tomesofawesome8041 he is the goat for a reason

bruv, I'm actor, and now I'm getting worried about my face and voice being used after my death.

AI mixed with real voice samples sound weird AF(see the same Mandalorian-Luke debacle) but there are indeed some completely synthesized voices that sound eerily similar to real voices. There was one I stumbled on a couple of months ago, which was a youtube video of a synthesized Adam Driver\Ben Solo voice(it was a silly narration of the old Star Wars movies) that sounded VERY close to the real one. Like, that stuff could be used for malicious intents tbh and legislation needs to take care of it.

@@projekttaku1 you’re probably not going to become big enough to have this happen to you lol

@@cheetodust745 I don't know wether that's a good thing or bad?

The funny part about it is known that sometimes it's not able to pronounce words correctly like I was messing around with an AI voice website but also most of the voices on that website were not real people they will fictional characters and of course I decided to select Amity from the owl house but it couldn't say the main character Luz's name correctly to be fair I also mess around with AI storytellers but those always tend to go in a strange direction and mostly known for writing fanfiction.

Would be kinda funny lol,.....at this point in time not many people in the world are capable of making a deep fake good enough to pass

@@bidxmanplays3253 It would def not be funny, plus people are getting better better at making digital faces.

@@grassblock7668 personal opinion

@@bidxmanplays3253 your personal opinion is kinda f*cked up ngl,re-chech your morals my friend

That is the point of this! They fake people being alive, and you know some desperate fans out there will even believe these people are back!!

He Was cremated.

Not Frozen it's just a joke.. About his death.

@@cremyalipante1917 I'm unsure any details about said cremation were ever released and I'm unsure anyone even went to it minus the 'cremators' so technically it's unproven. And the way these deepfakes are going it's seeming the frozen theory could honestly be true. I don't wanna cause any arguments by this just stating what I've heard.

*Yes! That would be perfect!*

I personally would like to see music theory, but math theory sounds interesting

@@lillygaddy6450 I definitely wanna see music theory

math theory- matpat’s 17th channel

English theory.It needs to happen

Yeah my great grandad is Sabastion Cabot and he is still used in the Tiki room as he voiced one of the parrots. Personally my family is fine with it but I know some people won’t be. I think they need to get permission from the family before they do anything

I don't even know any of the actors in movies, since I just don't care to watch movies these days.

I think there was a movie called The Congress or something like that. I may be misremembering the title of course, but the plot is about an actress who is replicated so she could continue even after death. There was also this other plot point with the virtual world and that blind brother... What am I even talking about? I'm clearly mistaking a movie description for a dream I had, right? How does this make sense? The word worm scene, with the aquarium, volcano sounds, and the boy reading someone's lips... I am so confused. Sorry if my confusion impeded your reading.

@@masicbemester No, I looked it up you got the name right. It's real, has a rotten tomatoes page and everything.

The whole world becomes more of a Dark Mirror episode every day.

@@failmasterjm what does the movie have to do with the Congress? I forgot most of it.

Of course, he's MatPat LOL

Haha. Not even close. You know Disney thanked the ChiCom Gulag guards for letting them film Mulan right? Disney is actively complicit in gen.o.cide... and digital necromancy is "dark"? You need to pay more attention.

This comment section has so many bots

They have a long dark past they shared, MatPat doesn't like talking about it

How many of them voted for Biden

But it would be sick to see Stanley again, I kinda miss him.

Yeh but remember how annoyed his daughter was seeing Sony and Disney fight over Spider-Man how annoyed would they be seeing Disney use Stan’s face for cameos

You didn't

@@cin.sin_ they did

I feel like the ghostbusters one was done in a way where it was respectful

History articles? Because by that logic, no one should be writing biographies

I agree, but I'm having trouble clarifying in my head what exceptions these would be. My first thought was charities. Say for example a person was a victim of fun crime and their image was used afterwards to raise money for charities campaigning to end gun crime. But I also feel like there will always be loopholes and people willing and creative enough to take advantage. What do you think?

@@emilykeepsmiling9465 exceptions being if they were involved with a movie prior to their death. Any movie after that, then no.

@@haloplayeroflegend2515 then what about biography movies where they use the persons image? Or do you mean a digital cgi copy?

​@yasio bolo i think you replied to the wrong comment

i need you to remember you made this comment

Somehow I want to agreed on this, but I m not sure about that...

@@GamerKent427 I can understand that, I am not a lawyer and I doubt you are one either so we don’t know the effects that certain changes of the law would have outside of the intention of said change

Yes, and I love it!!!

Well she already joked about how she had to pay George Lucas everytime she looked in a mirror and that was before Disney bought Lucas's film empire

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kindof, stock photography has its own contracts

And from what I've heard people make some pretty big bucks from selling their likeness as stock photos.

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cannibalism* but yeah that'd be interesting

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As much as I love the show I don't think there's enough for a full theory. Obviously there's tons of stuff going on behind the scenes with our lovable radio host but there needs to be more imo

No one care about your feeling