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Rights of Publicity for Dead Celebrities: IP in Digital Age

Explore the legal landscape of deceased celebrities’ publicity rights, covering holograms, deepfakes, and commercial exploitation.

Created byNew Media Legal Publishing, Inc.
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IntermediateUpdated Mar 31, 2025
Rights of Publicity for Dead Celebrities: IP in Digital Age

What You'll Learn

check_circleUnderstand the statutory and common-law basis for right of publicity, particularly post-mortem.
check_circleAnalyze case studies to identify potential legal conflicts in deceased celebrity ROP cases.
check_circleEvaluate the challenges of applying ROP to emerging technologies like deepfakes and holograms.
check_circleDifferentiate between ROP and copyright protections for deceased celebrities.

About This Course

The right of every person to control the commercial use of his or her identity – also known as the right of publicity – is of paramount concern for celebrities whose names, images, likenesses and voices can generate millions of dollars in revenue. 

This program reviews the statutory and common law foundations of the right of publicity while discussing the legal issues that have arisen in famous cases involving celebrities (living and dead) including Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Bette Midler, Nancy Sinatra, Vanna White and Jimi Hendrix.

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New Media Legal Publishing, Inc.
New Media Legal Publishing, Inc.

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New Media Legal Publishing, Inc. is a legal publishing company based in Los Angeles, California, that develops, produces, markets, and distributes innovative legal education content for law firms and companies. For more information about NMLP and its products, please visit  http://www.newmedialegal.com .

Peter  Afrasiabi
Peter Afrasiabi

Founding Partner at One, LLP

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One LLP and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark, and entertainment litigation. In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

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