Paul Newman joins actors privacy group

Paul Newman has joined a group of actors asking for the extension of current privacy laws.

Newman, alongside Christopher Plummer and Charles Grodin, has asked the US state of Connecticut to ban use of a person's image or voice without consent for as much as 70 years after their death. The actors have cited advances in technology as their reason for the request.

Newman explained: "They could make a whole movie that looked like me, talked like me, acted like me, sounded like me, but wasn't me."

Plummer added: "We are suddenly being cloned into something we're not. We are robbed of our individuality and our life's work is tarnished."

The Motion Picture Association of America says it opposes the bill.