Right of Publicity/Privacy

MTV: 50 Cent Gets Sued:

Fiddy filed a lawsuit for Trademark Infringement earlier this year after the company put out adverts saying he should change his name to 79 Cent or 99 Cent!
Now the chain have hit back in a countersuit calling the rapper a “self-described former drug dealer and hustler” and adding

The RNC comes to you and they say they want to use these stockphotos:
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in this video (the photos appears at 6:46 and 7:02 respectively):

The first photo seems to appear with the words ‘America will choose’ and the second photo appears with ‘prosperity.”
The iStockPhoto license defines “Prohibited Use” in part as:

“use or

Pixelization: “Do We Need a Mode of Voluntary Surrender of Publicity Rights?“:

Common-law and statutory rights of publicity in an increasing number of jurisdictions allow people to sue others for the unauthorized commercial use of their image, likeness, and voice. Creative Commons licenses release only copyright entitlements – not publicity rights. For a

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Plaintiffs seek to enjoin Defendants, and its agents, distributors, representatives, assigns,
and anyone acting in concert with them, from using the names, images, likenesses, signatures,
personae, and other related indicia of deceased baseball legends Jackie Robinson (“Robinson”),
Lou Gehrig (“Gehrig”), Mel Ott (“Ott”), Jimmie Foxx (“Foxx”), Rogers Hornsby (“Hornsby”),
Thurman Munson (“Munson”), George Sisler (“Sisler”),