Tina Sinatra Essay

In a well lit room that was necessary to allow the 72 Goga Black Box camera to adjust focus on a 23-year old Frank Sinatra's comfortably calm appearance, a picture is captured in Bergen, County jail. The viewer can see a scrawny Jersey boy with eyes so blue that regardless of the black and white overlay, the viewer's’ own eyes are drawn to his; a gaze so calm there is feeling as if one is standing in front of him waiting for him to move his crooked mouth. The absence of color creates even greater strength in contrast between the young man's loosely combed black hair where one piece frames his face, and the flawlessness of his pale complexion. Curiously, the viewer is eager to know the man behind this black and white mugshot. Fortunately, because of Sinatras daughter Tina, along with other trusty lawyers
Tina Sinatra insists that her father began to take notice that Elvis’s face was turning up on t-shirts and coffee mugs everywhere and he was apprehensive for what he would be remembered by when his time came (npr, 2015). New technology had the capacity to put one’s image on anything and to alter a celebrity's overall image- this frightened Sinatra. Tina sinatra began working actively with then young-lawyer Bob Finkelstein in order to protect the rights of Frank Sinatra and other celebrities. Previously, failing to protect the rights of the Marx Brothers, Finkelstein had the option to appeal to the supreme court, or to attack the problem from another angle. Thus, with a very Frank Sinatra-like attitude he decided to change the law. Bob Finkelstein introduced a right of publicity statute in the state of California that soon later became a law. Therefore, in California and several other states this law insists that, “you own the right to your likeness your voice and your signature. And if you die, you can pass that right on to your kids,” (npr,