Celebrity Impersonators Im Deutschen Und Us-Amerikanischen Recht

"Imitation ist he sincerest form of flattery" - many celebrities who are imitated by "Celebrity Impersonators" disagree and want to take legal action against their imitators. The present work compares the different legal possibilities for protection against such imitation unter German and US-law - in particular, the right of personality, intellectual property rights and the law of unfair competition. Based on this comparison, the author formulates suggestions for the future development of the commercialization of the right of personality in Germany. In her opinion, German courts should not adopt the "dualistic concept" of US-law, which knows a non-transferable Right of Privacy and a fully transferable Right of Publicity. Instead, she advocates the adoption of a so called "restricted transfer" of rights as recognized in German Copyright Law.