RE: Assignment of the Right of Publicity

>This seems like a good opportunity for me to renew the request I had
>made to the list earlier for any information you may have on how one
>goes about licensing rights of publicity from multiple parties,
>whether there is any organized way to clear licensing, or whether
>one has to go individually to each celebrity's agent for this.

I can't tell you in general but I can tell you about the Grateful Dead. Originally, Jerry Garcia refused to have his imagine licensed by itself. Then he died. The widow Garcia is willing to have Jerry's image licensed by itself. She worked with Grateful Dead Productions who issued dual licenses at first then broke with them. If you want to do something with images of the Grateful Dead (incl. Jerry), you now need separate licenses from the Band and from the Widow.

I suspect it depends on the relationship between the celebrities.

Carol Busby

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