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“A fascinating read for anyone who is interested in the nuts and bolts of right of publicity law and how the doctrine evolved to where it is today. It also will serve as a
valuable resource for litigators looking for guidance on how to reconcile the seemingly contradictory precedent in a way that is understandable…This book will

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quickly become one of the most cited sources by litigants and courts grappling with right of publicity issues.”―Stephanie S. Abrutyn, Communications Lawyer

“An unquestionably important book. Masterfully researched and deftly crafted, it is probably the best single source for gaining a deep understanding of the
doctrine’s history, context, and politics… Deserves a place among the must-reads of American right of publicity law.”―Eric E. Johnson, IP Law Book Review

“A formidable book that maps out the contours of the publicity right in an appealing and timely way.”―Eleanor Wilson, Journal of Intellectual Property Law and
Practice

“Rothman’s important book is an excellent contribution to the field, one that will hopefully provoke courts and legislatures to rethink their headlong expansion of the
right of publicity. It should be required reading for anyone dealing with the right of publicity.”―Mark Lemley, Michigan Law Review

“Rothman provides a complete legal and cultural history of the right of publicity, tracing its development from the late 1800s to its modern-day expansion as a
transferable right of property. Fascinating details of the individuals behind the cases, including celebrities and private citizens, inform how the law’s current contours
have been shaped…Indispensable.”―Rachel Bridgewater, Library Journal

“This is the definitive biography of the right of publicity, whose boundaries have exploded in recent years. Jennifer Rothman tells the story with zest, explaining how
we should restructure this right in our fame-obsessed age.”―Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law School
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About the Author

Jennifer E. Rothman is Professor of Law and the Joseph Scott Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

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Should you be able to stop a diapers company from using your kid’s photo that you posted on Facebook
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to advertise its brand of diapers? Should Martin Luther King Jr’s estate be able to stop you from
watching his “I Have a Dream” speech every year on MLK day? Who - if anyone - should get to control
photos of Prince now that he’s dead?

This timely and seminal book about the “right of publicity” touches on these topics, and so much more.

This extremely engaging and well-written book challenges existing assumptions about the right of
publicity and how it came to be. It is persuasive in its arguments and extensively researched, combining

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an examination of the history of privacy and publicity rights in the last century with in depth analysis and
a close look at various seminal cases and law suits brought by (or against) an interesting array of people
ranging from ordinary Americans to famous people such as MLK Jr, Prince, Elvis Presley, Bette Paige,
and OJ Simpson — just to name a few.

I highly recommend this book! It’s a must-read for lawyers and legal scholars, but totally accessible to a

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Thomas F. Cotter

Professor Rothman presents an enlightening, entertaining, and critical ...

June 11, 2018
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Professor Rothman presents an enlightening, entertaining, and critical history of the evolution of the
right of the publicity, from its modest origins early in the twentieth century through its "inflationary era"
mid-century and continuing to the present day. She shows how courts and legal scholars have often
misread the foundational cases establishing the right, and how the expansive "propertization" of names,
images, and other indicia of identity not only can impinge on free speech and copyright principles, but
also harm the very individuals the right is intended to protect. An impressive work, and an enjoyable
read.

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Patrick Kabat

Must-read. Engaging, timely account of fame, privacy, storytelling, revenge porn,

and our right to be left alone.
May 7, 2018
Format: Hardcover
Professor Rothman is not only the leading scholar of a headline-making right that shapes the contours
of everything we read, write, and watch, but a phenomenal storyteller herself. This extraordinary book
serves up insightful and provocative legal analysis as an engaging work of cultural history.

Using the right of publicity as her text, Rothman weaves together important but overlooked social,
technological, cultural, and commercial moments that still echo in the laws that confound us. The result
is a must-read for culture hounds, social historians, legal and media scholars, entertainment-industry
types, and thoughtful consumers of pop culture.

As a work of cultural and legal history alone, the book is indispensible. Rothman draws on years of
primary-source research into era-defining cases to tease out the social norms about privacy, the
commercialization of fame, and the economics of storytelling that made our early laws. She reminds us
how different the culture industries were as the 19th century bled into the 20th, and yet how familiar
were the concerns, as Kodak cameras—the unheralded predecessor to smartphones and selfie culture
—put image-capture tech in the hands of creeps and self-styled detectives, and as the rise of mass
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communications gave unprecedented range to those images in advertising, news, and film. She traces
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Fex V.

Come for the law, stay for the entertaining case studies
May 28, 2018
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An extremely informative, and highly entertaining read. I'm in the entertainment industry (but not a
lawyer) and bought this at the author's book launch. To be honest, I didn't expect a book about law to be
so engaging. Professor Rothman does an excellent job of guiding the reader through the history of the
right of publicity and how the right of privacy plays a vital role in understanding how it's applied today.
She also raises interesting questions including how we should think about applying it in the future, and
what all this means in current content-saturated world of social media. Definitely worth getting,
especially if you're curious how a human cannonball and baseball cards come into play.

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