likeness
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Star athletes can now legally earn millions of dollars, between direct compensation from their schools and fees the players can command for the marketing rights to their name, image and likeness, known as NIL payments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Scammers exploit the Emirati royal's likeness by drawing on his vast online presence, including his more than 17 million Instagram followers, and sometimes even copying the prince's authentic poems to deceive victims.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Stuart’s first likeness of Washington is known as the Vaughan Portrait after the London merchant Samuel Vaughan, and hangs in the National Gallery of Art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
That control is beginning to carry real value, said Tammy Brandt, CAA’s deputy general counsel, who said she is seeing more deals that involve digital likeness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
I kept darting surreptitious glances at him while also looking straight ahead, as if I had no business gazing directly at this perfect likeness of an Indo-Greek god, high school edition.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
The hospital should absolutely inform physicians if their names and likenesses are being employed in this way, and they should also be told in advance what patients will be solicited in their name.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Some creatives are concerned that the technology could displace jobs; others worry that their likenesses are being used to train AI models without their permission or compensation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026
“Spud” will be of no reassurance to Disney, which inked a billion-dollar deal with OpenAI in December to allow Sora users to generate likenesses of many characters.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
Eventually, the company added controls so content owners could block the use of their likenesses or intellectual property,
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
In the age of photography, we have come to see portraits as mere likenesses and we readily forget that they call on all our skill to grasp their meaning.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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