Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-25-1103

Property right in use of name, photograph, likeness

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case STATE EX REL. ELVIS PRESLEY INTL. MEMORIAL FOUNDATION v. Crowell (1987)

Most recently applied in Polygram Records, Inc. v. Legacy Entertainment Group, LLC (January 2006)

Acts 1984, ch. 945, § 3.

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(1) Every individual has a property right in the use of that person's name, photograph, or likeness in any medium in any manner.

(2) The individual rights provided for in subsection (a) constitute property rights and are freely assignable and licensable, and do not expire upon the death of the individual so protected, whether or not such rights were commercially exploited by the individual during the individual's lifetime, but shall be descendible to the executors, assigns, heirs, or devisees of the individual so protected by this part.

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.