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

(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

Rights of publicity. A text by Carlson Analytics

Carlson Analytics. Rights of publicity. Carlson Analytics intellectual property (on line). September 2006, (page consulted the 02/15/2007), accessible on: http://www.caslon.com.au/ipguide24.htm

Dublin core metadata description

Title: rights of publicity

Creator: Carlson Analytics

Subject: USA, law; right of celebrity; right of personality; right of publicity

Description: Presents the right of publicity in United States of America, gives defines of concepts related to the rights of publicity and the American legislation. It also gives cases of personalities or firms which had problems with it and a selection of links and interesting documents about this subject

Publisher: Carlson analytics

Date: September 2006

Type: Text

Format: HTML

Identifier: URL: http://www.caslon.com.au/ipguide24.htm

Language: English (USA)

Coverage: United States of America

Rights: © Copyright Caslon Analytics

Extract: “Personality Rights is an area of intellectual property that has gained most attention in the US for protection of pop culture idols such as Elvis Presley and that poses interesting challenges for internet publishing.”