For the record, here's what the right of privacy and publicity section of the 
Library of Congress's "American Memory" website says:

While an individual's right to privacy generally ends when the individual 
dies, publicity rights associated with the commercial value connected with an 
individual's name, image or voice may continue. For example, many estates or 
representatives of famous authors, musicians, actors, photographers, politicians, 
sports figures, celebrities, and other public figures continue to control and 
license the uses of those figures' names, likenesses, etc. 

That corroborates my earlier contention that right of privacy ends with 
death.  These rights, by the way, are not covered by federal law.  They're the 
subjects of state laws, which vary.  That's why they hedge with the word 
"generally."

David Haberstich

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