Posts tagged with "Right of Publicity"

  1. Right of PublicityTrademarks

    Keyword advertising as trademark infringement: court declines to rule it out

    April 20, 2026 - A Washington psychiatrist sued a competing nurse practitioner and her clinic for trademark infringement and misappropriation of his name and identity. Plaintiff David Penner, owner . . .

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  2. Right of PublicitySection 230

    Section 230 protected Meta from Huckabee cannabis lawsuit

    December 3, 2024 - Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, sued Meta Platforms, Inc., the parent company of Facebook, for using his name and likeness without his permission . . .

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  3. Artificial IntelligenceRight of Publicity

    AI and voice clones: Three things to know about Tennessee’s ELVIS Act

    March 23, 2024 - On March 21, 2024, the governor of Tennessee signed the ELVIS Act (the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security Act of 2024) which is aimed . . .

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  4. Right of Publicity

    Court dismisses company executive’s name and likeness lawsuit over YouTube videos

    September 12, 2022 - Strouse was the president and CEO of a company but departed with the company was sold. He did not approve of how the new company . . .

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  5. Contracts

    Intellectual property issues in a speaker’s agreement

    October 26, 2020 - https://youtu.be/TJR6Qad12Mc Let's say you're going to host a conference -- these days that would be an online conference -- and you want to invite people . . .

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  6. Right of Publicity

    Right of publicity case against Shaquille O’Neal over a photo he tweeted and posted to Instagram moves forward

    January 19, 2016 -

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  7. First AmendmentPrivacy

    California court okays lawsuit against mugshot posting website

    October 12, 2015 -

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  8. Right of Publicity

    Court denies request of plaintiffs in right of publicity suit to exhume the body of Aunt Jemima

    October 22, 2014 -

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  9. CryptocurrencyRight of Publicity

    The trademark and right of publicity woes of having a cryptocurrency named after you

    January 7, 2014 -

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  10. DefamationRight of Publicity

    Amazon and other booksellers off the hook for sale of Obama drug use book

    April 4, 2011 -

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