3036 An action for interference with the right of publicity may be based on the sale of a likeness of a deceased personality, unless the likeness is sufficiently transformational to receive constitutional protection as a work of art or means of expression.CitationCOMEDY III v SADERUP (Three Stooges) 25 C4 387[See: CivC 3344.1 (fmr 990), 3344; Zacchini v Scripps-Howard 433 US 562; Guglielmi v Spelling-Goldberg 25 C3 860; Lugosi v Universal 25 C3 813; Est of Presley v Russen 513 FSupp 1339; Comedy III v Saderup (RevGrtd) 68 CA4 744, T/AT 1/99]
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