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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
Can you imagine some scion of George Washington wanting to get some miniscule percentage out of the use of their ancestor's image? The US Government alone would have to pay out the nose.
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That's not exactly the best example as George Washington has no direct living descendants. Martha was a widow with children when he married her, and they had no children together. It has happened in more recent times though that families of famous people have fought to protect their ancestor's image. Bela Lugosi's family did I think and I wouldn't be surprised if Boris Karloff's family has as well. I don't know about Alfred Hitchcock's stylized image but I wager it might be as well.