Don't give ideas to Disney (and its legal team) please.. next you know (especially with US elections coming soon) they are ruthless enough to go for it!
With people toying around with cloning.
With Elon (and others) toying around with 'accessing the brain'.
I wouldn't be surprised if in 100-200 years from now the "Altered Carbon" (nice SciFi series) becomes reality.
(and now we know where Disney will be investing) :)
Having a clone seems a lot closer to having a child or sibling than cheating death. If somebody is survived by their identical twin, we don't say the dead one is still alive.
In the Altered Carbon books/TV series, people can transfer their consciousness into new bodies to cheat death. That makes the issue of who is the same person more complicated than simple biological cloning.
if his head had been frozen and cryogenically preserved would his copyright(s) have persisted . . .
Do any of the cryo crowd on ice get their artistic rights back if they were ever successfully decanted?
I suspect legally dead is dead wrt rights and I doubt anyone frozen to date is coming back .. but it's potboiler for when ... sometime in some future.