The collectiveness has no the right to the collective right to portrait, so the commercial use of the collective portrait should be admitted by every individual with his figure in it.

This paper starts with an introduction of portraiture right theoretics and curtrent situation of legislatio, accordingly, it will focus on a hot-issue that press and journalist are recentaly become the defendants in portraiture right cases, however, the judgements are still in dispute.

The conflicts and solving of the works copyright of the photography and portrait right;

On the legal protection for the portrait right,there are the personality law and the copyrights law,these two main kinds of legislation models.

Some more famous sports athletes are undoubtedly the public persons ,its image is known by social masses,its behavior will bring certain social effect too,so in this sense,the protection of the sports athlete′s portrait right has certain particularity.

The article analyzed the case of Liu Xiang s right to portrait and three legal problems about it.

The case of Liu Xiang s right to portrait has caused a great disturbance.

A citizen s right to portrait belongs to himself only.

With the development of market economy, science and technology and change of people s values, the media lawsuit of iconology right frequently occurs.