[lunaticlabs]

As a person who has lived most of their life in the USA, but now lives in Germany, I find the German/EU law about likenesses being a perfectly sane alternative to the US law. If you use my likeness for anything commercial that is not specifically documenting a historical event, you require my permission to use my likeness. You want to make deep fake porn at home with my image? Have at it. You distribute it? Prepare to lose a lot of money. Same for commercial entities, so there just seems to be less of an incentive for this kind of thing (I'm sure deep fake porn happens in Germany too, just not at the same level as in the US). Its the same reason that Google Street View photos are blurred so often in Germany. It seemed a little crazy when I lived in the US, now that I live here, I can't imagine going back to the old ways.