47-25-1102 - Definitions. - Tennessee Statutes

47-25-1102. Definitions.

As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

     (1)  “Definable group” means an assemblage of individuals existing or brought together with or without interrelation, orderly form, or arrangement, including, but not limited to, a crowd at any sporting event, a crowd in any street or public building, the audience at any theatrical or stage production, a glee club, or a baseball team;

     (2)  “Individual” means human being, living or dead;

     (3)  “Likeness” means the use of an image of an individual for commercial purposes;

     (4)  “Person” means any firm, association, partnership, corporation, joint stock company, syndicate, receiver, common law trust, conservator, statutory trust, or any other concern by whatever name known or however organized, formed, or created, and includes not-for-profit corporations, associations, educational and religious institutions, political parties, community, civic, or other organizations; and

     (5)  “Photograph” means any photograph or photographic reproduction, still or moving, or any videotape or live television transmission, of any individual, so that the individual is readily identifiable.

[Acts 1984, ch. 945, § 2.]