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| 1 | First Amendment Does Not Shield Video Game from Right of ... In Hart v. Electronic Arts, Inc., the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit applied the transformative use test to find Ryan Hart's right of publicity interests outweighed Electronic Arts' use of his likeness and biographical information in a college football video game, reversing the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of Electronic Arts. | Legal Update: archive | 24-May-2013 |
| 2 | The Expanding Right of Publicity: Advertisers Beware A discussion of key right of publicity considerations, including links to relevant resources examining the legal sources for the right and the scope of protection. | Legal Update: archive | 05-Mar-2013 |
| 3 | Holder of Marilyn Monroe Publicity Rights Estopped From ... In Milton H. Greene Archives, Inc. v. Marilyn Monroe LLC, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the district court's grant of summary judgment holding that Marilyn Monroe LLC was estopped from changing Marilyn Monroe's domicile at time of death from New York to California. As a result, Marilyn Monroe LLC was precluded from asserting Marilyn Monroe's publicity rights under California's posthumous right of publicity. | Legal Update: archive | 31-Aug-2012 |
| 4 | Class Action Against Facebook Survives Motion to Dismiss The US District Court for the Northern District of California denied in part Facebook's motion to dismiss a class action asserting, among other claims, right of publicity violations based on Facebook's use of its users' names and likenesses in its Sponsored Stories advertising. Facebook sought dismissal asserting that, among other grounds, it is protected from liability as an interactive computer service under the federal Communications Decency Act, Facebook users' "likes" fall within the newsworthiness exception to California's right of publicity statute, the plaintiff's failed to allege sufficient injury and, in any case, the plaintiffs consented to the use based on Facebook's terms of use. | Legal Update: archive | 21-Dec-2011 |
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