Camy, There are other laws that govern how someone's name and likeness can be used. Both trademark law and something I usually see referred to as "rights of publicity" might come into play. In the mid-1990s there was a legal case that got a lot of coverage when a city in Nevada was sued for using Mark Twain's name and likeness in an ad campaign to boost tourism. Hal Holbrook has said that he pays the Mark Twain Foundation for his use of Mark Twain's name and image. This is the official web site for Twain created by the company that handles those rights for the Mark Twain Foundation: http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/ There is an article there saying that Twain's play "Is He Dead?" will open on Broadway in October. CMG Worldwide's client list is interesting: http://www.cmgworldwide.com/clients.html Other historical clients include Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, Jack Kerouac, General George Patton, and Norman Rockwell. Jim Zwick