Data.ny.gov provides records of Right of Publicity filings processed in New York State, beginning in 2020. Each record details the claimant, deceased personality, and specific rights claimed, such as likeness, signature, or digital replica. The dataset is maintained by the state government and was last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze the distribution of claimed rights types (e.g., 'Rights Claimed to Likeness', 'Rights Claimed to Digital Replica') across different claimants.
- Model relationships between 'Claimant Entity Name', 'Agent to Claimant City', and '% Interest Claimed' to identify filing patterns.
- Classify filings based on 'Successor in Interest Basis' and 'Deceased Personality Last Name' to study inheritance claims.
- Identify geographic clusters of agents using 'Agent to Claimant County' and 'Agent to Claimant Zip' columns.
Strengths
- Contains over 20 distinct columns detailing claimant, agent, deceased personality, and rights information.
- Data covers filings from 2020 onward, providing a multi-year view.
Limitations
- Unknown total row count prevents assessment of dataset scale.
- Sample data is unavailable, making initial data structure validation impossible.
Provenance
- Source
- data.ny.gov
- Collection Method
- Processed Right of Publicity filing information.
- Time Range
- Beginning 2020
- Freshness
- Last updated April 2026.
- Geography
- New York State