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Re:Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees by freejazz on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:02PM (#47220693)
A human's own likeness is not copyrightable. Hard to take posts about copyright doctrine seriously when they are premised on complete misunderstanding.
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Re:Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees by wang_li on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:36PM (#47221207)
There is a legally protected right of publicity. You cannot take someone's likeness and use it for your advertising campaign/movie/endorsement without their permission.
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Re:Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees by freejazz on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:12PM (#47224145)
In some states, yeah, but it is not a copyright and has nothing to do with copyright.
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Re:Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees by dragonwriter on Monday March 02, 2026 @12:49PM (#47221410)
> There is a legally protected right of publicity.

There is not a general right of publicity in federal law in the US; in certain states there is with different parameters, including as to who is even protected.

There is a false endorsement provision in the Lanham Act, 15 USC § 1125(a), that provides a very narrow protection around misleading commercial endorsement, though.

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