Can you use a public figure's likeness?

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Would you be allowed to make a video using a famous person's likeness? I'm thinking of Robot Chicken.

Can you make a cartoon or animation and have politicians or athletes and get away with it?

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There's nothing wrong with it as long as it's fair use, as far as I am concerned.