What is a release?

Creator: Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources

Description: Give a definition of the right of publicity, his context, the law in United States. The right of publicity grew out of the general principles of invasion of privacy that prohibited the appropriation of a person's name or likeness to gain some benefit.

Publisher: Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources

Date: 2003

Type: Text

Format: html

Source: http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter12/12-a.html

Language: English

Coverage: United States

Rights: Copyright NOLO

Star power: Celebrities have a legal right to prevent the commercial use of their images without permission. But are they silencing artists and satiri

Creator: BENNET, Drake

Description: the right of publicity is not the right to be famous, it's the right to control-and profit from-the commercial uses of one's persona. According to Mark Lee, a lawyer who has represented clients like Tiger Woods, Barbra Streisand, and Sylvester Stallone in right-of-publicity and other intellectual property cases, the right of publicity is essentially a protection against ``other people making money off of you without your permission."

Publisher: Boston Globe

Date: 2006-06-04

Type: Text

Format: html

Source:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/06/04/star_power?mode=PF

Language: English (United States)

Coverage: United States

Rights: Boston Globe

Copyright news you can use: “Hey, That Publication Is Using a Photo of Me! The right of publicity explained

Creator: BERGER, Andrew

Description: The right of publicity protects each person, celebrity or not, and allows
each to control and profit from his or her identity. A majority of states recognize
publicity rights either by statute or through case law. California and some others
protect publicity rights even after a person’s death. This document gives us explanations about this concept in United States.

Publisher: Andrew Berger, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

Date: 2005-06

Type: Text

Format: HTML

Source: http://www.editorialphoto.com/resources/6-05_LegalNews-%20right_publicity.pdf

Language: English (United States)

Coverage: United States

Rights: Andrew Berger, Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP

(B)log: false advertising and more

Creator: TUSHNET, Rebecca

Description: The author of the blog gives us everyday examples of cases involving problems of right of publicity/privacy.

Publisher: Blogspot

Date: Last post: 2007-03-30

Type: Text

Format: html

Source: http://tushnet.blogspot.com/search/label/right%20of%20publicity

Language: English (United States)

Coverage: United States

Rights: TUSHNET, Rebecca

Institute of Global Law: French tort law

English database about french law cases related to rights of publicity. It’s interesting to discover how french and anglo saxion legislation are differents with the subject of the proctection of privacy.

Title: Institute of Global Law: French tort law

Creator: University College London, Faculty of Laws (Director: Dr. Jörg Fedtke)

Description: Resource for French Law materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law. The English translations of legal decisions include cases from:

The Conseil d’Etat; the Cour de cassation; the Conseil constitutionnel

Publisher: University College London, Faculty of Laws

Date: 2005

Type: text

Format: HTML

Source: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/global_law/french-cases/index.shtml?committee

Language: English (Great Britain)

Coverage: French and english students, lawyers, judges who wants informations about french legislation.

Rights: Copyright: University College London

Personality rights database

A wikispace created by students from the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law based in Edinburgh. It contains abstracts of interesting cases related to “personality” rights and compares the jurisdictions in the world to find common points and differences. Interesting; have a look!

Title: The Personality Rights Database

Creator: AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law

Description: Presents the “personality rights” in different countries all over the world as France, Germany, United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland… The aim is to study similarities and differents between the jurisdictions.

Publisher: Wikispace

Contributor: School of Law, University of Edinburgh

Date: last modified 2007-02-22

Type: Text

Format: HTML

Identifier: URL: http://personalityrightsdatabase.com/index.php?title=Main_Page

Language: English

Coverage: Scotland, United Kingdom,

Rights: AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law; University of Edinburgh

Right of publicity: an overwiew

Title: Right of publicity: an overwiew

Creator: GROVE,Tyler

Subject: Lanham Act, invasion of privacy law, statutory law, trademark, USA.

Description: Presents a brief panorama of general constituents of the notion right of publicity. The Web page contents links related to other pages which present allied notions which could be interesting to have a larger vision of the aim. Furthermore, the user dispose of a large collection of sources.

Publisher: Wex / LII editor (Legal Information Institute. Cornell Law School)

Contributor: LAKS, Alexandra

Date: 2006-06-31

Type: text

Format: HTML

Source : http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Publicity

Language: English (USA)

Coverage: United States of America

Rights: LII Editor