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In November 2009, General Motors had placed an advertisement in People magazine that depicted Einstein’s face pasted on to a muscled body, accompanied by the slogan: “Ideas are sexy too.” The Hebrew University protested: “Dr Einstein with his underpants on display … causes injury to [the university’s] carefully guarded rights in the image and likeness of the famous scientist.”

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Richman considered himself the underdog. “Oftentimes I became despondent over the power and influence of the opposition,” he wrote in an unpublished memoir. “I was fighting major advertising agencies, broadcasters, film studios, manufacturers and publishers – a belligerent field.” He was energised, however, by what he considered to be a moral cause. How could anyone, Richman wrote, “not want to remove a presidential dildo from the marketplace?” The university seemed happy to keep a low profile while Richman fought its profitable battles. “I didn’t get the impression that people were at all aware of the university’s role during this period,” Rosenkranz told me. “But Richman had the reputation of being a tough cookie in the negotiations – which was in the university’s interest.” Throughout the 1990s, Ze’ev Rosenkranz, curator at the Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University in Israel, received as many as 30 faxes a month from Richman’s office in Beverley Hills. Each fax contained a proposal from a different company that hoped to use Einstein’s name or likeness in its product or service: everything from antibiotics to computers, cameras to soft drinks. It was up to Rosenkranz, a young academic who, through his work preserving Einstein’s papers, was intimately familiar with the scientist’s thoughts and values, to bless or veto each offer. The responsibility was “overwhelming”, Rosenkranz told me recently. “I am a historian, not a businessman. But somehow the university had decided that this would be my role.” Rosenkranz was uneasy about his role. He believed Einstein would have been against most, if not all, marketing associations. “If it was purely commercial, he was usually against it,” he said. Yet Richman put pressure on him to approve a far wider range of proposals. Rosenkranz recalled that when he rejected a deal from Huggies diapers, Richman was particularly unhappy. “It wasn’t purely about profit for him,” recalled Rosenkranz. “But in the end, it was a business. And I am in academia. It was not an easy topic.”Rosenkranz was not the only person to feel uneasy about the arrangement. In early 2011, when she was 70, Einstein’s adoptive granddaughter, Evelyn, announced plans to sue the Hebrew University for what she considered to be a gross overreach of their role. What had started out as an act of curation had, in her view, evolved into a form of exploitation. “I was really offended by some of the stuff that was being OKed,” Evelyn told a journalist from the New York Post. Evelyn’s friend, the lawyer Allen Wilkinson, told me that “she could not stand the fact that they were profiting from Einstein bobbleheads and other bits of memorabilia that have nothing to do with literary rights”. The university, Evelyn claimed, had ignored her requests for an arrangement that would allow her to profit from the sales to help pay her medical bills.

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A humanoid robot with a face resembling Einstein at the World Robot Conference, Beijing, September 2021. Photograph: VCG/Getty Images Albert Einstein famous quote tshirt, Einstein motivational shirt, Science Shirt, Teacher Gift, teacher gift idea, Einstein lover gift Six decades after his death, Einstein’s earnings show no sign of slowing. That Einstein remains so in demand is a function not just of his otherworldly brilliance and unforgettable appearance, but also the values he embodied. It has always been easy for diverse groups to embrace Einstein – a short, dyslexic hypochondriac from a persecuted minority – as their own. His seemingly contradictory positions – he opposed the creation of a Jewish state and deplored the victimisation of Palestinian Arabs, while raising funds for Zionist causes; he disdained the idea of divine revelation, but believed in God – made it possible even for opposed groups to adopt him as their figurehead. Refusals would often be met with fury. “Companies would say: ‘This is all hogwash’,” Rosenkranz said. “‘These people are dead. They don’t have rights.’” Others denied that their Einstein-themed product had any association with the physicist. “There was a word processor called ‘Einstein’ that was popular in Israel at the time,” Rosenkranz told me. “The company even used the word ‘genius’ in its marketing.” But the makers claimed that the Einstein software was named not after the physicist Albert but after the company’s founder, Stuart. (According to Rosencranz the argument worked, and the company never paid up.)Cute Panda shirt • Kids halloween shirt • Kids shirt designs • Panda Gifts • Bear t-shirts • adults kids unisex • Panda Costume Shirt Einstein Tiles 'The Hat' Puzzle Set - Aperiodic STEM Einstein Tiles for Teachers, Brainteaser, Tessellation Tiles Mathematician Teacher Gift Evelyn died before she had her day in court. But shortly after her death in April 2011, a case was heard in California that, it seemed, would settle the question of Albert Einstein’s ownership for good. While researching the law, Richman found a case involving the son of Bela Lugosi, the Hungarian-American actor best remembered for his performance as Dracula. In 1966, Lugosi’s son sued Universal Pictures, claiming that he and his stepmother owned his father’s image rights, not the movie studio. Lugosi’s son won the case at trial, but the high court overturned the ruling on the grounds that his father had not sold his image for commercial purposes during his lifetime. Richman deduced, then, the heirs of any celebrity who had sold his or her image during their lifetime had a claim on their publicity rights.