Explore: Publicity (law)

personality represented publicly without permission. In common law jurisdictions, publicity rights fall into the realm of the tort of passing off. A commonly

In marketing, publicity is the public visibility or awareness for any product, service, person or organization. It may also refer to the movement of information

property law, which includes key components such as trademarks, copyright, and the right of publicity. However, the practice of entertainment law frequently

cultural meanings available to wide public, copyright and right-to-publicity law is clamping down on and limiting these works, thus reducing their promulgation

Nimmer, 1954, "The Right of Publicity", Law and Contemporary Problems, p. 203. William L. Prosser, "Privacy", 48 California Law Review 383, at 384. Neil

of Sam law (American English; also known as a notoriety-for-profit law) is a law designed to keep criminals from profiting from the publicity of their

descendible rights of publicity that last 70 years after death, retroactively for any person deceased after January 1, 1938. A similar law has failed in the

identified as a law enforcement agency's highest priority for capture. The list can alert the public to be watchful, and generates publicity for the agency

no federal law in the U.S. protects celebrities' right to publicity. However, states like California have established statutes and common law to protect

behavior of Seattle-based Whitepages violates the Illinois Right of Publicity Law. Whitepages has the largest database of contact information on Americans