Tex. Prop. Code § 26.001 · Chapter 26. USE OF A DECEASED INDIVIDUAL'S NAME, VOICE, SIGNATURE, PHOTOGRAPH, OR LIKENESS
DEFINITIONS.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
In this chapter:
(1) "Photograph" means a photograph or photographic reproduction, still or moving, videotape, or live television transmission of an individual in a manner that allows a person viewing the photograph with the naked eye to reasonably determine the identity of the individual.
(2) "Property right" means the property right created by this chapter.
(3) "Name" means the actual or assumed name used by an individual which, when used in conjunction with other information, is intended to identify a particular person.
(4) "Media enterprise" means a newspaper, magazine, radio station or network, television station or network, or cable television system.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 152, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.
Source of truth
- Edition
- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PR/htm/PR.26.htm
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- sha256 35984920fb2725369d14a797f689e1325862c735890c35b6fff7fcb45fcea90e
- Composed by
- compose_tx.py 2026-10-05: the Legislative Council's chapter files read in document order; verify_tx.py's independent reading (lxml DOM walk) agrees character for character
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