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Not GP, so I don’t know what jurisdiction he was imagining. But, the ‘right to publicity’ is a jurisprudential invention (1958), but it has since been codified
by throwaway17_17 3y ago
Not GP, so I don’t know what jurisdiction he was imagining. But, the ‘right to publicity’ is a jurisprudential invention (1958), but it has since been codified in maybe half the states in the US. The case used most frequently in law school is Carson v. Here’s Johnny Portable Toilets, Inc (Carson was found to have right to his catchphrase even without a trademark). For a statute for instance in California Civil Code 3344 (which protects natural living persons’ likeness, voice, photographs, etc.
— Also, none of the above is legal advice.