With the emergence of generative AI in entertainment media, the right of publicity in relation to actors’ likeness is becoming increasingly prevalent. Modifying voices using generative AI (“genAI”) has become a serious concern amongst voice actors, and it is important to examine whether voices are a part of identity protected by public use law.

Taken in 1801 by Lord Elgin, then British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, the Parthenon Marbles remain encased in the British Museum, nearly 2,000 miles away from their original home in Athens, Greece. In a lost firman (permit), Elgin allegedly obtained permission from the imperial Ottoman Authorities to cast, draw, and erect scaffoldings of the Parthenon’s statues. However, debate surrounds whether he was actually authorized to remove the Marbles, including almost half of the famed frieze. After falling into severe debt, Elgin sold the sculptures to the British government in 1816.

In 1899, Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased a strip of marshland to house the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Ninety-one years later, the Gardner hosted the most infamously expensive museum heist ever—$500 million worth of art including a Rembrandt seascape, Degas sketches, a Vermeer, and ancient Chinese pottery was stolen over St. Patrick’s Day weekend in 1990. Despite a Netflix documentary and substantial increases of reward money, the trail remains frigid. To this day, the museum has empty spaces where the art once was, “placeholders” representing the hope that the paintings will return.