terratogen wrote:

All these guys were so eager to do commercials when they were alive, right? Copyright lasts almost forever after you die, who owns your likeness when you kick?

Your estate, or estranged wife, in the case of Kurt Cobain.

Catonic wrote:

terratogen wrote:

All these guys were so eager to do commercials when they were alive, right? Copyright lasts almost forever after you die, who owns your likeness when you kick?

Your estate, or estranged wife, in the case of Kurt Cobain.

Hm, is the use of your likeness something that one could stipulate via Will?

terratogen wrote:

Saatchi & Saatchi/London has a new print/poster campaign in the U.K. that cleverly employs four dead rock stars – Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joey Ramone and Joe Strummer – as Doc Martens endorsers. “We wanted to communicate that Dr. Martens boots are ‘made to last,’ ” explains writer Andrew Petch, “and we discovered that these idolized musicians wore them. Showing them still wearing their Docs in heaven dramatized the boots’ durability perfectly. And, as images, they feel very iconic.” As for the legal implications of enlisting the support of this particular fab four from beyond the grave, Petch says the images have been cleared for use in the U.K. only, in an arrangement with Corbis, supplier of the original photographs, which have been enhanced by photographer Dimitri Daniloff and retoucher Christophe Huet.

All these guys were so eager to do commercials when they were alive, right? Copyright lasts almost forever after you die, who owns your likeness when you kick?

This makes me want to BURN my Docs.