Under the common law jurisprudence a personality right is the right of an individual to control the commercial use of his or her name, image, likeness, or other unequivocal aspects of one's identity. This right to personality is classified into two categories; a. The right of publicity or to keep one's image and likeness from being commercially exploited without permission or contractual compensation and the right to privacy, and; b. The right to be left alone and not have one's personality represented publicly without permission. Basically under common law jurisprudence publicity rights fall in the realm of the tort of “passing off” which idea was developed on the notion of natural rights that every individual should have a right to control how, if at all, his or her "persona" is commercialised by third parties who intend to help propel their sales or visibility of own product or service. This means that where there is a publicity rights contention then the issue for the court to deal with and decide upon is whether a significant section of the public would be misled into believing (correctly or incorrectly) that a commercial arrangement had been concluded between a plaintiff and a defendant under which a plaintiff agreed to an advert involving the image or reputation of a famous person. The actionable cause, therefore, under misrepresentation would then bring the suggestion that a plaintiff did in fact endorse or license a defendant's product or somehow has control over those products. Arising from this seemingly clear common law jurisprudence, it is my humble view that for one to succeed in an action for infringement of image rights such a person has to prove the following basic elements: -The plaintiff must be identifiable.

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