The recent DC superhero movie The Flash raises ethical questions that go way beyond Ezra Miller. The plot of the film involves time travel, and the complications include creating alternate timelines. The result is the appearance of multiple versions of superheroes as they appeared in different media, sometimes portrayed by actors who are long dead, with the help of CGI and artificial intelligence. But would those actors have approved of the use of their personal images in this way? Not only does this bring up the sticky question of dead people having rights, it also foreshadows one of the issues of the current writers and actors strikes. Will prior work of living artists be harnessed to create new movies? Will those artists be owed any input or compensation? The whole moral of The Flash is the inadvisability of messing with the past, but the producers did just that in making the movie they way they did. Nerdstaligic explains the finer points of this argument in a spoiler-filled video. -via Digg