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Article #94Re: Rt of Publicity & SNL in NYS
From: Carl Oppedahl
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:46
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 04:46
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In <1993Jan11.015755.1388@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> katop@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Chris Katopis) writes: >I watched the recent Saturday Night LIve TV show and saw several >of their skits about the Long Island Scandalous AMy Fisher and >Buttafuoccos. >I learned in school that NYS has a "Right of Publicity" which protects >people's image from being used in a commercial context. >How can SNL use these people's image in skits? Did they: >1) obtain a license >2) just declare "it's a parody" >3) say because they were part of a news story, their image is in >the public domain >4) ??? You could write them and ask. I expect they would say (2). -- Carl Oppedahl AA2KW (intellectual property lawyer) 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112-0228 voice 212-408-2578 fax 212-765-2519
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!panix!oppedahl From: oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl) Newsgroups: misc.int-property Subject: Re: Rt of Publicity & SNL in NYS Message-ID: <C0q58t.B7H@panix.com> Date: 12 Jan 93 04:46:05 GMT References: <1993Jan11.015755.1388@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC Lines: 24