..celebrity or their likenesses

I created a reporter picture with AI and generate a combined picture of the person and a picture of real persons (no celebrities) in a sports reporting scene with gemini-2.5-flash-image.

Then veo (veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview) should create a video with the prompt:“Create a short, cinematic football broadcast interview video. Scene: A modern football TV studio mixed with pitch-side atmosphere. Stadium lights, subtle crowd ambience, professional sports broadcast look. The reporter smiles warmly and speaks directly to him in an enthusiastic but respectful tone: “Was für eine Leistung von dir! Du hast das Quiz dominiert. Dein Fußball-Wissen ist auf einem anderen Level — klar der bessere Spieler heute. Glückwunsch zu diesem hochverdienten Sieg!” The winner reacts with a confident smile and slight nod, looking proud and accomplished. Camera behavior: • Start with a wide broadcast shot • Smooth cut to a medium two-shot”

Sometimes it works, sometimes i get: “Sorry, we can’t create videos from input images containing celebrity or their likenesses. Please remove the reference and try again.” which blocks me from going live as i don’t want to handle complaints of failing video creations.

In the end veo complains about a picture which was generated by gemini-2.5-flash-image which makes no sense to me and is right now very frustrating as it costs me time and money (picture generation) and i get no result.

Hi @DoubleM
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Thank you for reaching out!
Could you please share a complete screenshot of the error you are encountering?

Thanks!

Hi,

this is the chatgpt produced reporter screen:

(need to take it out as i can only post 1 image here)

This the combined image by gemini-2.5-flash-image.

![combined| 500x500 (upload://wKETonAisLa3o0aYAAkcTbAjyem.jpeg)

Then i send to the api the prompt of my first post and get:
{“severity”:“INFO”,“message”:“Checking status for video 6sXtdM9VzZIzRuF27LPI (Op: models/veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview/operations/l7jhacytm29o)”}

{“name”:“models/veo-3.1-fast-generate-preview/operations/l7jhacytm29o”,“done”:true,“response”:{“@type”:“type.googleapis.com/google.ai.generativelanguage.v1beta.PredictLongRunningResponse",“generateVideoResponse”:{“raiMediaFilteredCount”:1,“raiMediaFilteredReasons”:["Sorry, we can’t create videos from input images containing celebrity or their likenesses. Please remove the reference and try again.”]}}

Hello,

Could you please share the steps to reproduce the issue so we can verify it on our end? This will help us reproduce the behavior and escalate it to the appropriate teams.

Thanks!