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Angwin’s attorney Peter Romer-Friedman says that longstanding laws in New York and California, where Superhuman is based, clearly prohibit the commercial use of a person’s name and likeness without their permission. “Legally, we think it's a pretty straightforward case,” he tells WIRED. “More broadly, one of the reasons why we're filing this case is, you know, we can see what's happening in our society: that lots of professionals who spend years, or in Julia's case, decades, honing a skill or a trade, then see that their name or their skills are being appropriated by others without their consent.”