Marilyn Monroe's Estate Loses Rights To Photos After Fighting To Make Her A New Yorker
from the figure-this-one-out dept
It appears Marilyn Monroe's estate didn't think all the way through its strategy of posthumously moving the famed star to New York. Apparently, her family convinced California tax authorities that Monroe had been a New York resident, in an attempt to avoid paying taxes on the estate in California. Unfortunately for the estate, that would also mean that Marilyn Monroe's publicity rights died with her. As Against Monopoly points out in the latest example of the bizarre effects of intellectual property rules, California allows "rights of publicity" to live on after death -- meaning that images of famous people still need to be licensed. However, New York says your right of publicity dies when you die. So, a court has now ruled that, thanks to Monroe's own estate claiming that she was a New Yorker, there's no longer a right of publicity for Monroe, and photographers who own Monroe photographs shouldn't have to pay her estate (as they've done since her death). This has photographers claiming that the estate has been unfairly demanding licenses for many years. Next time, perhaps Monroe's estate will just pay the taxes it owes. But, in the meantime, we get to see the bizarre impact of rules such as "publicity rights" which have forced photographers to pay to use photographs they took for many years.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Marilyn Monroe Liberation
What an embarrassment and what a silent payback by an American Legend who has been used as the goose that is laying golden eggs for the past 26 years for Anna Strasberg, the licensing lawyers Roger Richman (who changed the CA law) and Mark Roesler, who was knowingly and happily Marilyn Monroe into a cheap bag lady--reigning for 11 years over what he calls the icon 'his product.'
Bittersweet symphony and now these greedy abusers of La Monroe will find another victim, but we all know: There was only one Marilyn and she will recover from the tacky salt and pepper shaker image.
She will have the biggest renaissance, the biggest comeback that any star, living or dead ever had.
Marilyn Monroe is here to stay.
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Marilyn Monroe
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Clear this up for me...
Thank You...
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The Marilyn Monroe estate and her rightful heirs her real family
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I Even Remember My Mom when I was a Child before She Died.
I Was 6 Years Old when My Mom Marilyn Died!!!
Tell Every one and Pass This On I'm NOT Lying !!!
Stop Believing Women that Want to Be ME !!!
This is The Truth !!! Facts Only DNA !!!
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Psh....Plesase
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how do I get my name entered into what is mine
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marilyn monroes estate
Nancy Maniscalco has taken them to court in 2 states and has not lost and is still standing. but because they jumped jurisdiction to keep the rights to her image, in california only, they kept one step ahead of justice. Nancy Miracle brought to court the fact that she was born Nancy Cusumano, that has been verified by the vital records in sacramento. her birthday was not correct, nor place of birth etc...that is why the probate took 20 years they the strasbergs didn´t have facts, still don´t just an abyss of pr stuff and lies.
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Marilyn Monroe a New Yorker
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