What legal protections should Mardi Gras Indians have?

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New Orleans Journal - New Orleans ?Indians? Look to Copyrights for Protection - NYTimes.com

Knowing that there are few legal protections for a person who is photographed in public — particularly one who stops and poses every few feet — some Mardi Gras Indians have begun filing for copyright protection for their suits, which account for thousands of dollars in glass beads, rhinestones, feathers and velvet, and hundreds of hours of late-night sewing.

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I was there, BTW.
 

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