My take: Companies can not take actor’s body image «for free forever» like they are trying to do, it is just theft and illegal.
If Disney wants to , say, take Harrison Ford body and make an Indiana Jones 6 with ‘‘him’’ (an animated rendering of his body), then they have to pay royalties, negotiate a contract, etc with the person, the same way any of them would do with their IPs. In general, everybody should have their body as their own IP really, by default and retroactively. With largely the same rules as the very IPs of these mergacorporations, so they enter public domain after a while too.
PS: i really want my AI-generated Buster Keaton and OG Popeye short films …