Melville Nimmer is well known to media law scholars as the author of two influential treatises on copyright and free speech, and for winning a landmark case before the Supreme Court of the United States, Cohen v. California, as a law professor at UCLA. Less well known is that before he joined the faculty, Nimmer served as legal counsel at Paramount Pictures, one of the biggest movie studios in Hollywood. It was in that role that he wrote "The Right of Publicity," which called for judicial recognition of a celebrity's property right in his name and likeness, independent of existing rights of privacy.
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