Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Jordan S Hatcher <jordan AT opencontentlawyer.com>]

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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