Company that owns the rights to Elvis won't target impersonators

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Elvis impersonators won't have to change their disguises. Nobody's coming after them -- at least, not yet.
The head of the entertainment company that now owns the legal rights to Elvis Presley's name had suggested recently to the New York Times that the company should do something about "unauthorized Elvis impersonators."

But he now says that's not going to be a major priority. Robert Sillerman says, "It's not even on the radar screen right now."

His company, C-K-X, took control of Elvis Presley Enterprises last year.

And his recent suggestion that his company might take-on the phony Elvises got them all shook up.

A man who founded one of the oldest and best-known Elvis impersonator contests says it's not something you can just suddenly stop. He says, "It would be like a big revolt."

A law professor says it not be so easy to target the impersonators. Roberta Kwall of DePaul University says entertainment has generally been given broader protection. And she says if an impersonator includes a bit of his own style, then it becomes an interpretation or a parody -- not just a copy.

Copyright 2006 Associated Press.

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