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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shutyertrap" data-source="post: 30186" data-attributes="member: 134">If you guys have ever seen a documentary called 'The Art of the Steal', you'll soon realize there isn't an ironclad will out there that can't be broken by using some creative logic.  For those that didn't see it, it's about the city of Philadelphia literally stealing a private art collection from the Barnes Foundation that is worth untold millions, despite having a will that set up in no uncertain terms that the art was never ever to be displayed in a museum.  Specifically one in Philadelphia.  Where it sits now.The only reason I have hope for TAF and an arrangement with RJ's estate is that its not like anything new is being created.  This is all art and voice that was approved by the actor himself.  This isn't Guitar Hero where Raul might now have his face show up in an Elvira table.  There's a strong argument that can be made for this not going against his wishes, as what we're talking about here is a license that had merely expired, and a renewal is what is being sought.  It's a grey area, and all depends whether the estate reads the will as an absolute or as a declaration of new uses of his image that he obviously can never approve of now.  In other words, he saw John Wayne hawking a vacuum in that commercial and said "nope, not gonna be me".</blockquote>

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