[cc-licenses] Distribution of picture on the internet in US-law?
Jordan S Hatcher
jordan at opencontentlawyer.com
Fri Oct 5 03:25:35 EDT 2007
On 4 Oct 2007, at 21:37, Dana Powers wrote:
> In the U.S., this question is governed by state privacy law. The most
> active cases deal with what is known as the "Right of Publicity,"
> dealing with commercial exploitation of a person's likeness. The
> Wikipedia article is pretty informative:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_publicity
>
I can't resist giving a plug to an earlier project I was working on
about this area. It is a wiki of personality rights (rights of
publicity plus others). It is a project of the AHRC Research Centre
for Studies in IP and Technology law at the University of Edinburgh.
Personality Rights Database
http://personalityrightsdatabase.com/
It has links to many US cases, as well as the opportunity to build
out the law state-by-state.
Thanks!
~Jordan
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