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Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-25-1102

Part definitions

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Wells v. Chattanooga Bakery, Inc. (2014)

Most recently applied in Marshall v. ESPN Inc. (June 2015)

Acts 1984, ch. 945, § 2.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Definable group” means an assemblage of individuals existing or brought together with or without interrelation, orderly form, or arrangement, including, but not limited to, a crowd at any sporting event, a crowd in any street or public building, the audience at any theatrical or stage production, a glee club, or a baseball team;

(2) “Individual” means human being, living or dead;

(3) “Likeness” means the use of an image of an individual for commercial purposes;

(4) “Person” means any firm, association, partnership, corporation, joint stock company, syndicate, receiver, common law trust, conservator, statutory trust, or any other concern by whatever name known or however organized, formed, or created, and includes not-for-profit corporations, associations, educational and religious institutions, political parties, community, civic, or other organizations; and

(5) “Photograph” means any photograph or photographic reproduction, still or moving, or any videotape or live television transmission, of any individual, so that the individual is readily identifiable.

Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.