Right of Publicity — guides, checklists and articles
12 practical documents on Right of Publicity, newest first.
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- Digital Replica Checklist: Consent, Scope, Compensation, Credit, and Revocation · Checklist — A digital replica consent fails on provisions nobody negotiated, and the standard likeness release satisfies almost none of the new statutory requirements.…
- Clearing and Contracting for Digital Replicas: A Practitioner's Guide to Consent, Scope, and Duration · Guide — This guide takes a digital replica from the decision to use one through the consent, the contract, the production, and the enforcement that may follow. It…
- Right of Publicity and Personal Brand Toolkit: NIL, Endorsements, and Digital Replicas · Toolkit — This toolkit is a guided tour of everything in the Marksy library about controlling a person's name, face, voice, and persona as commercial property, organized…
- Synthetic You: Digital Replicas, Voice Cloning, and the New Likeness Statutes · Article — A convincing synthetic performance can now be produced from a few minutes of recorded voice and a handful of photographs, and the legal system has responded…
- Name, Image, and Likeness Clearance Checklist: Releases, Licenses, and Post-Mortem Rights · Checklist — This checklist is the working document for clearing name, image, likeness, and voice in a commercial campaign, and it runs eleven phases from scoping the use…
- Clearing and Licensing Name, Image, and Likeness: A Practitioner's Guide for Brands, Creators, and Athletes · Guide — This guide is the operational companion to Marksy's right of publicity article: it assumes the doctrine and spends its length on execution, walking a single…
- Post-Mortem Rights Checklist: Domicile, Term, Registration, Chain of Title, and Licensing · Checklist — Whether a personality's rights survive death depends on where they lived when they died, and most of what an estate loses is lost in the first year through…
- Your Face Is Not Public Domain: The Right of Publicity, NIL, and the State-Law Patchwork · Article — This article explains the American right of publicity: a state-by-state body of law, invented by a federal judge in 1953 to solve a baseball-card problem, that…
- Estate and Legacy Rights Toolkit: Post-Mortem Publicity, Catalogs, and Succession · Toolkit — The right of publicity is the only major intellectual property interest whose survival after death depends on where the person happened to live, and most of…
- Administering a Deceased Personality's Rights: A Practitioner's Guide to Descendibility, Registration, and Licensing · Guide — This guide runs a deceased personality's rights from the first month of administration through a mature licensing program. It begins with the domicile evidence…
- Digital Replica and Synthetic Media Toolkit: Consent, Contracts, and Enforcement · Toolkit — A convincing synthetic performance can be produced from a few minutes of recorded voice and a handful of photographs, and the legal response has been a…
- Rights That Outlive You: Post-Mortem Publicity, Descendibility, and the Estate's Toolkit · Article — The right of publicity is the only major intellectual property interest whose survival after death depends on where the person happened to live. This article…