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Intellectual Property

Jul. 22, 2004

Hobson's Choice Awaits Artist Of Work Portraying Celebrities

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By David Halberstadter - Is a bobblehead doll bearing the likeness of a celebrity-turned-politician an example of pure commercialism? Or can such a figurine represent a prototypical exercise of constitutionally protected speech? The answer to this question lies at the heart of the most recently filed lawsuit that pits California's right of publicity against the First Amendment.

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