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September 09, 2008
The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part: Marilyn Monroe’s Legacy: Taxation of Postmortem Publicity Rights
Joshua Tate revisits an April 2008 essay in The Yale Law Journal Pocket Part by Mitchell Gans, Bridget Crawford, and Jonathan Blattmachr, who argued that recent state legislation recognizing postmortem publicity rights fails to take into account the likely estate tax consequences. In the most recent edition of The Pocket Part Tate argues that although Gans, Crawford, and Blattmachr are correct to argue that allowing publicity rights to pass by will or inheritance could have adverse tax consequences for some estates, those ramifications are not as far-reaching as might be imagined. Moreover, the authors' “legislative solution” will not solve the problem.
Posted by Yale Law Journal at September 9, 2008 10:35 AM
