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- 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>
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- In <1993Jan11.015755.1388@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu> katop@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Chris Katopis) writes:
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- >I watched the recent Saturday Night LIve TV show and saw several
- >of their skits about the Long Island Scandalous AMy Fisher and
- >Buttafuoccos.
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- >I learned in school that NYS has a "Right of Publicity" which protects
- >people's image from being used in a commercial context.
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- >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) ???
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- You could write them and ask. I expect they would say (2).
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