It has come to my attention that entities identifying themselves variously as American Milestones, The Journal, World Progress Report, Inside America, BiographyPT, Healthwise, Staying Current, Lifeline, Medwatch 411, Spotlight, The Bio Series, and Imagine, Explore, Discover have been using my name in an improper manner that is without my consent in solicitations promoting the production (at a substantial cost) of public relations videos, commercials and paid-for news segments. The videos and commercials are described in these sales pitches as being for distribution, among other places, through "internet narrowcasting" and public television. Recipients of these solicitations may also be told that I have approved of or am endorsing their product or service, and that such endorsement will be featured in the video. In addition, I have been alerted to the existence of numerous web sites that use my name in their domain names without my permission, apparently as part of these unauthorized sales pitches.

I wish to make clear that I am NOT connected with, and do not sponsor, endorse or approve of any such unauthorized activities. Such uses of my name, and any implication that I or any one in my office is the producer of such programming, or in the solicitations for such programming, is wholly unauthorized. Any person soliciting this type of programming who states that they are my assistant, my producer, my employee, or calling from my office, is doing so falsely. In addition, the use of my name in a product or service endorsement, as well as any statements that I have endorsed or approve of a product or service in connection with this programming, are false.

It appears to me that the unauthorized use of my name may have arisen from my participation, in 2008, in the filming of certain generic "openings and closings" for what I was told would be educational television segments of less than 5 minutes in length. These segments were later to be produced on topics such as medicine, law and business, and were to be distributed by a company known as World Media Television, Inc. However, the authorized use of my name, likeness and image in such short segments was strictly limited to United States public television station exhibition. I did not create, narrate or appear in the segment content. Nor did I express approval of any products or services depicted in the segments. I have asked World Media Television and its related entities to provide a listing of the air times on public television for its programming (which they claim has aired), but I have not received such a listing to date.

To reiterate, I have not authorized my name to be used in the improper ways described above and certainly not to endorse any product or service.

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