Symposium 2018 - Recommended Readings

Owning Personality: The Expanding Right of Publicity

Recommended Reading

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1.  S. 5857B, 2017-2018 Leg., 2017-2018 Reg. Sess. (N.Y. 2018)

2.  Ind. Code § 32-36-1

3.  Restatement (Third) of Unfair Competition ch. 4, topic 3 (1995-2007).

4.  Jennifer Rothman, The Inalienable Right of Publicity, 101 Geo L.J. 185 (2012).

5.  Midler v. Ford Motor Co., 849 F.2d 460 (9^th Cir. 1988).

6.  Wendt v. Host International, Inc., 197 F.3^rd 1284 (1999).

7.  White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 971 F.2d 1395  (9^th Cir. 1992).

8.  Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co., 433 U.S. 562 (1977).

9.  Danielle Citron, Mainstreaming Privacy Torts, 98 Cal. L. Rev. 1805 (2010).

10.  Stacey Dogan, Bullying and Opportunism in Trademark and Right-of-Publicity Law, 96 B.U.L. Rev. 1293 (2016).

11.  Daniel Gervais and Martin L. Holmes, Fame, Property & Identity: The Purpose and Scope of the Right of Publicity, 25 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 181 (2014).

12.  Kevin L. Vick and Jean-Paul Jassy, Why a Federal Right of Publicity Statute is Necessary, Communications Lawyer, August 2011.

13.  Eugene Volokh, Freedom of Speech and the Right of Publicity, 40 Hous. L. Rev. 903 (2003).

14.  Patrick Kabat, The Information Society Project and The Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, The Right of Publicity: Through the Thicket?: The Report of the Right of Publicity Workshop at Yale Law School (2015).

15.  Brief for Jarryd Huntley as Amicus Curiae Supporting Respondents, Gravano v. Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., 2017 N.Y. LEXIS 211, 28 N.Y.3d 915 (2017).

16. Jennifer Rothman, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World.  Cambridge: Harvard Univeristy Press, 2018.