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I really want to know what their legal theory is, because the usage of their likeness seems pretty clearly allowed under Ohio law: http://www.dmlp.org/legal-gu

• yellow_lead 4y ago
  Maybe the "hope the other person settles" approach. But that tends to work better when there's a financial imbalance.
• fsckboy 4y ago
  you linked to an entire page of a detailed law, which at a glance protects rights of publicity, not "gives them away". I'm not saying you're wrong, but what clauses do you think allows usage of their likenesses in this context? "The statute requires that any consent to use an individual's right of publicity for a commercial purpose be made in writing, which includes written, electronic, digital or any other verifiable means of authorization."
  • runlevel1 4y ago
    In Chrome that link goes to the "Limitations and Defenses" section -- I forgot that other browsers need the Link to Text Fragment extension for that to work. Here's the key part of Ohio law it references: https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2741.09 https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-2741.09