Celebrity's Rights Of Human Rights And Their Rights

Rights of celebrities
There are laws that protect the rights of celebrities due to the reason of protecting their artwork, faces, voices and so forth to be exploited without consent. The idea of this protection is to ensure that their rights, not only as a celebrity but also as a human being are preserved. However due to the infringement of their rights by people who are able to acquire their artwork has led to the creation of laws to protect their rights. There are many types of rights that every celebrity deserve to have. These rights are recognized under international conventions for examples; the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights .Other than International conventions, laws are made specifically

This is also can be regarded as an unfair trade practice, the act of passing off and misappropriation of intellectual property. For an example the usage of a celebrity’s face in creating digital images which could cause confusion and defamation due to the manipulation of the digital images created which animated the look alike of the celebrity including deceased celebrity regarding the promotion of the goods. Publicity right can be seen in the case of Midler v Ford Motor Co & Others .In this case, Ms Midler who was a singer refused to give her version and subsequently she turned down the request for permission by the defendant which was the company who wanted to use her song in the Ford cars’ commercial. Subsequently, Ula Hedwig a backed up singer for Ms Midler was contacted by the agency and asked her to sing the song and made herself sound like Ms Midler.When Ms Midler discovered her song was aired in the commercial, she sued the defendants. However the defendants contended that, what they did was not contrary to section 3344 of the California Civil Code .It is because they did not use the same ‘name, voice, signature, photograph or likeliness’. However, it was held by the court that it was unlawful to imitate her voice without any consent given by her. This right gives the celebrity an exclusive control over commercial exploitation of their names, likeliness and any aspects of their personae .In the case of Henderson v Radio Corporation Pvt Ltd , it is regarding ballroom dancers who claimed that the defendants produced a record ‘Strictly for dance’ in which the pictures of the ballroom dancers were used in the cover illustration without consent. It was held by the court that this was amount to wrongful appropriation of the personality which affected the