Mann, where the defendants set up a pay-for-access website relating to the late Michael Jackson. This leads to poorly designed pay-for-access websites with risqué names like “ .”Ī district court in California heard one of these storage locker disputes in Branca v. But sometimes, these buyers get a little overzealous–they convince themselves that their interest in the tangible property gives them an interest in some of the celebrity’s underlying intellectual property rights.
When a celebrity goes bankrupt or forgets to pay a bill for his/her physical-space storage locker, opportunists may swoop in and purchase the goods so they can try and turn a profit reselling them.
