Thomas Kadri on the Right of Publicity & Free Speech

In this episode, Thomas Kadri, a Ph.D. candidate at Yale Law School and resident fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, discusses his new paper "Drawing Trump Naked: Curbing the Right of Publicity to Protect Portraits of Real People." Kadri explains the history of the right of publicity and its relation to the right of privacy. He then discusses the various justifications offered for the right of publicity, and the tensions between the right of publicity and the right of free speech. In particular, he considers the right of publicity in relation to artistic speech, as well as "hard cases" like revenge porn and "deep fakes." You can follow Kadri on Twitter at @thomaskadri.

Keywords: online speech, private platforms, internet platforms, internet intermediaries, free speech, constitutional law, First Amendment, private governance, tort law, defamation, privacy law

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