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Volokh on Right of Publicity

By Marty Schwimmer on April 16, 2003
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Eugene Volokh via Slate on why Pfc. Jessica Lynch, like Zelig, doesn’t own the rights to her own life.

Explain-o-joke: In Zelig, the main character sells the rights to his life story to a movie studio.  There’s a lawsuit and in the settlement, he only gets back the boring parts.

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Martin Schwimmer is a partner in Leason Ellis, an IP law boutique in White Plains, NY. His practice is concentrated in the area of U.S. and international trademark law and domain name counseling, prosecution and litigation.

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