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The US doesn't nationally have a Right of Publicity law (the UK does, the EU doesn't, India does -- it's a real mixed bag out there), so you can't actually stop someone from using your name as a pen name for the most part. But this was already becoming a problem long before AI reared its head, with public domain text put in verbatim in a book by "Stephen A. King" or whatever


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