More problematic, however, are issues of copyright and personality rights.

The result was a loss for the concept of inheriting personality rights in California.

Copyright law, throughout its history, has sought to protect not only the financial interests of the authors but also their personality rights.

Personality rights are the basis of German copyright law.

As such, the plaintiffs claimed the photographs were used for entertainment without personality rights clearance.

In France personality rights are protected under article 9 of the French civil code.

The personality rights however may be contracted for persons who are generally accepted as public persons.

Legal resource for personality rights cases in the U.S.

In 2008, the case (concerning personality rights rather than copyright as such) was thrown out of a Texas court for lack of jurisdiction.

Briley attempted to obtain an injunction, claiming he had paid the King family $200,000 in personality rights.

The right of publicity can be referred to as publicity rights or even personality rights.

There are several legal ramifications for the digital cloning of human actors, relating to copyright and personality rights.

The extended form of passing off is used by celebrities as a means of enforcing their personality rights in common law jurisdictions.

Personality rights have developed out of common law concepts of property, trespass and intentional tort.

Common law jurisdictions (with the exception of Jamaica) do not recognise personality rights as rights of property.

'You are solely responsible for ensuring that you do not infringe someone else's personality rights.'

Personality rights and the broader tort based interpretation of the right to privacy protected correspondence, personal information and dignity.

For computer software, the copyright act expressly provides that all economic usage rights (as opposed to personality rights) "belong" to the employer.

It ruled, that Gründgens's post-mortem personality rights prevailed and the prohibition imposed on the publishing house is valid.

In Denmark, the Danish Penal Code chapters 26 and 27, provides certain personality rights.

Schacht first requested that the magazine publish a correction, and when the magazine refused, sued the publisher for violation of his personality rights.

Defamation (libel and slander), personality rights and privacy rights issues also arise in entertainment law.

The brothers sent a cease and desist order to the channel, claiming that Magenta owned Bueno's personality rights.

The Roger Richman Agency, Inc. was a licensing agency that specialised in personality rights.

The Celebrities Rights Act was passed in California in 1985 and it extended the personality rights for a celebrity to 70 years after their death.