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I’m not especially sympathetic to the idea that celebrities, as people who seek fame or voluntarily accept it in exchange for certain benefits, have ceded on some abstract level the right to reasonable expectations of being left the fuck alone in public. It doesn’t follow that because Kanye West allows people to consume and profit from his visage in certain controlled contexts–videos, concerts, magazine covers–that anyone has the right to do so in any context. That’s speaking abstractly and morally, of course, about How I Think The World Should Work. Whether or not people like Kanye West should have any legal recourse is a much different issue.
I don’t have an answer here, but law students out there should know that anyone who can bring some Solomonesque wisdom to this dilemma will likely find him- or herself highly sought after. I suggest beginning with the fact that cameras steal your soul.
