Re: Rights in real characters

I just saw the movie Contact. It contains approximately 3 minutes worth of speeches "by" Bill Clinton, which were actually created by the movie producer from existing film clips of Clinton. Clinton apparently did not approve this use, and was not paid.

Is there any reason this wouldn't violate the right of publicity in California?

Mark Lemley
Assistant Professor, University of Texas School of Law Of Counsel, Fish & Richardson, P.C.
mlemley[_at_]mail.law.utexas.edu

You can find a list of my articles and books, and information on how to obtain them, at http://www.law.utexas.edu/lemley/pubs.htm

For information on the Intellectual Property program at UT, see http://www.utexas.edu/law/acadaff/intelprop/ Received on Wed Jul 30 1997 - 15:49:07 GMT