Personality rights copyright

Biopic examples
Biopics
Right of publicity law

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Legal, Consent and Copyright Issues For Documentary Filmmaking

When you’re excited about starting your documentary project, it’s hard to focus on legal and copyright issues.

But if you have dreams of a Netflix deal, uploading it to internet, showing it in film festivals or having it broadcast on television, you need to know the basics of copyright.

Watch this video explaining Creative Commons and Copyright issues:

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Copyright Issues: Here’s How It Works

Anyone who makes a film can decide who sees it and who copies it.

That’s called copyright. The “Right to Copy”. This law protects the artist and their work.

When making a film, you must respect copyright of other artists when you want to use their music, video, film, artwork, photographs, etc. You MUST have their permission and/or pay to copy their work.

And if you have the dream of selling your film, you will have to PROVE to those film buyers that you own all the rights to eve

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List of biographical films

Year Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress 1906The Story of the Kelly GangNed KellyFrank Mills1909The Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight SonataLudwig van BeethovenHarry BaurThe Life of MosesMosesPat HartiganEdgar Allen PoeEdgar Allan PoeHerbert YostSaul and DavidKing DavidMaurice CostelloKing SaulWilliam V. Ranous1910Pyotr VelikiyPeter the GreatPyotr Voinov1911Sweet Nell of Old DruryNell GwynNellie StewartCharles II of EnglandAugustus Neville1912Custer's Last FightGeorge Armstrong CusterFrancis FordCleopatraCleopatraHelen GardnerFrom the Manger to the CrossJesusRobert Henderson-Bland1913Adrienne LecouvreurAdrienne LecouvreurSarah BernhardtGiuseppe Verdi nella vita e nella gloriaGiuseppe VerdiEgisto Cecchi The Life and Works of Richard WagnerRichard WagnerGiuseppe BecceSixty Years a QueenQueen VictoriaBlanche Forsythe (younger)

Louie Henri (older)

1914Beating BackAl Jennings

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Personality rights

Right of an individual to control the commercial use of one's identity

Personality rights, sometimes referred to as the right of publicity, are rights for an individual to control the commercial use of their identity, such as name, image, likeness, or other unequivocal identifiers. They are generally considered as property rights, rather than personal rights, and so the validity of personality rights of publicity may survive the death of the individual to varying degrees, depending on the jurisdiction.

Classification

Personality rights are generally considered to consist of two types of rights: the right of publicity,^[1] or the right to keep one's image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission or contractual compensation, which is similar (but not identical) to the use of a trademark; and the right to privacy, or the right to be left alone and not have one's personality represented publicly without permission. In common law jurisdictions, publicity rights fall into the realm of the tort of passing off.