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Licensee of Elvis merchandise warns Las Vegas wedding chapels

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Authentic Brands Group, which licenses Elvis Presley-related merchandise, issued a cease-and-desist letter last month to several Las Vegas wedding chapels.

The notice seeks to stop the unauthorized use of "Elvis Presley’s name, likeness, voice image and other elements of Elvis Presley’s persona in advertisements, merchandise and otherwise."

“This couldn’t hit at a worse time. It’s not a good thing,” said Clark County Clerk Lynn Goya, who has presided over Las Vegas’ wedding marketing campaign, in an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It might destroy a portion of our wedding industry. A number of people might lose their livelihood.”

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