Posted on 11/27/2020 6:44:32 AM PST by BenLurkin
Ever since Kamenya Omoto, a Tokyo-based specialty mask maker and store, announced its intention to buy the rights to people’s faces for 40,000 yen ($380) a pop, it’s been overwhelmed with offers. The company wants to reproduce people’s faces in the form of hyper-realistic masks and sell them for an estimated ($940). If a mask proves popular with clients, the person whose appearance inspired it stands to earn a percentage of the profits as well. The controversial project, named “That Face”, reportedly aims to give a sci-fi twist to the idea of buying and selling faces.
Anyone over 20-years-old and based in Tokyo can apply to sell their face for a profit, but the company makes it clear that those chosen are not allowed to reveal their identities. The mask maker also agrees not to disclose your likeness or personal information to anyone beyond the mask making process.
Customers interested in wearing someone else’s face as a mask can currently pre-order one based on the face of a Kamenya Omoto shop-keeper, but if you want options, the company announces more available faces soon.
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Sounds dangeorus
My face is a hit over there. I’m getting residual checks every week for eighteen cents each! Now I just need someone to sign them!
No.
The very thought of some odd-ball doing odd-ball things, and then having my face (already on youtube for years) connected to the agent or the odd-ball thing itself, no.
What can go wrong?
Bad guys/gals can not only wear a mask but now frame someone else for their crimes.
Jerry, is that you?
Someone call the Sunshine Carpet Cleaners!
It gets even more creepy when you realize that Japan is the home of artificial-intelligence sex robots.
“No.”
How ‘bout going through old art archives instead, and using portraits of people long dead.
The ‘copyright’ on their faces has to be long expired...
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