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Claim copyright & have it taken down.

In general you can't claim copyright over something that someone else has made. That's kind of the point.

You can’t claim copyright on your own likeness?

You can trademark it, but that doesn't apply retroactively, and then you have to vigorously defend it or you will lose the trademark (which is why corporations are constant sending cease and desist letters to their own fan clubs).

Ok, if they aren't actually claiming that the video was released by Talarico, then explain to me how this isn't slander?

Publicly and falsely claiming someone said or did something that causes material damage is slander.

I think it is libel, since it is a video. (Historically if it was a lie spoken about someone then it was slander, and if it was a lie written about someone then it was libel. I think that a fake video is more like an intentionally false written piece.)

In any case, collecting damages for lies told about is possible. I'm not sure it can be done in time for the election, and the people seeing it on TikTok probably won't ever know about the case, so mission accomplished, I'm afraid.

Nope. So far the only country on earth that's tabled laws to allow for this is Denmark.

Bullshit. YouTube will takedown videos from 1A auditors. That's why they don't tell the disgruntled people their channels or identity.

You just have to file a privacy claim. Then they have to blur or censor your face. Clown emoji are popular.

It's not bullshit.

1. Denmark has passed a law allowing people to copyright their likeness and no other country has done so.

2. Youtube isn't a court and it's TOS can be stricter than laws.

3. Filming someone in public is fundamentally different than using AI to generate their likeness. As you identified, it's usually a privacy issue, not a copyright one.