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A doppelgänger refers to a real person that happens to share your likeness.


Or to put it another way, imagine two identical twins, where one joins an extremely strict religious sect and the other becomes a porn actor.

Under what circumstance can the first twin sue the second to stop them from acting?

Is "people might think it's me" enough? Does it cross the line if the second twin uses their siblings' legal name as their stage name? What if it's just a nickname? etc.




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