My (limited)understanding, after a brief encounter with CMG a few years ago over an out of copyright photographic image of Twain that we provided to an ad agency, is that CMG uses a somewhat obscure principle called "rights of publicity" to legitimize some of their claims. As I understand it this is a point of law that is recognized in some states and not others which would serve to further complicate the issue were it to be tested in court. Mark Woodhouse Elmira College