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Good old Neil didn't think of selling his hair first, and how this has anything to do with the Ohio law designed to protect the rights of famous people I have no idea.
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Ohio law basically says that the right of publicity is a property right. This means that if someones name (among other things) has a commercial value then you can't use it for a comercial purpose.
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Do famous people have more rights than normal citizens, if he sold my hair for $3000 would I be able to sue, which I wouldn't because good on him for being able to profit from something useless.
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If he sold it as "This hair belongs to [insert your name here]", and someone paid more because of that, then you would be able to sue him. If he sold it as "This is just some random hair" then you wouldn't be able to sue.
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Hay Neil instead of suing why don't you sell your toe nail clippings and give the barber a cut of the profit for giving you the idea. This is another case of the law says I can sue so I will not because Neil was actually harmed by it, if anything it has given the old fossil some needed publicity.
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Did it ever occur to you that he might not want publicity? Neil has generally avoided the media spotlight.
[ 06-01-2005, 05:44 PM: Message edited by: Seraph ]