101: Publicity Rights and Celebrity
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Description
Publicity rights protect the commercial value of one’s persona from unauthorized appropriations. By broadly construing the scope of one’s persona, removing restraints on the right’s alienability, and extending the right’s availability past death, courts and legislators expanded the ability of the famous, including famous authors, to control outside uses of their public image. Legal academics often question the theoretical grounding of publicity rights, but there is little doubt that such rights influence the construction of meaning in the minds of audiences. (Published as a chapter in the Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature)
Publication Date
1-7-2025
Publisher
Elgar
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803925912.ch101
ISBN
9781803925905
Disciplines
Law | Law and Society | Privacy Law
Recommended Citation
Mark Bartholomew, 101: Publicity Rights and Celebrity in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Law and Literature (Professor Robert Spoo and Professor Simon Stern, ed., Elgar 2025).
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