No person may use any aspect of a personality’s right of publicity for a commercial purpose during the personality’s lifetime or for seventy years after the death of the personality without the express written consent of the personality, or if the personality is deceased without the express written consent of the personality’s next of kin or other person or entity that owns the right of publicity.

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Terms Used In South Dakota Codified Laws 21-64-2

  • Person: includes natural persons, partnerships, associations, cooperative corporations, limited liability companies, and corporations. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2
  • written: include typewriting and typewritten, printing and printed, except in the case of signatures, and where the words are used by way of contrast to typewriting and printing. See South Dakota Codified Laws 2-14-2

Source: SL 2015, ch 126, § 2.