Quote - SO from what I am reading it is okay to make a politician who is alive and kicking, but not okay to make a likeness of dead person  who married a baseball  lengend stars and even might have banged a dead president?

Yeah, they're treated differently. Peng has a petty good explanation. I remember reading copyright legaleese about it few years ago when I had to deal with it at work, but don't remember a lot of detail about it off the top of my head at the moment, other then remembering they're treated differently.
I'll have to think about it a bit before I can think of some buzzwords to google some reference material that explains what I vaguely remember.

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