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Publicity & Privacy Rights

We have successfully represented clients in some of the leading cases in the right of publicity area, which is governed by state law and directly affects a client’s ability to use individuals’ names, images and personas in advertising materials and on products and services

Decisions

  • April 9, 2009

    874 N.Y.S.2d 52 (App. Div., 1st Dep’t 2009)

    On behalf of documentary filmmaker defendants, the Firm successfully defended appeal of lower court’s dismissal of plaintiffs’ defamation claims for lack of personal jurisdiction. The appellate court also affirmed lower court’s dismissal on merits of plaintiffs’More

  • May 8, 2005

    132 Fed.Appx. 267 (11th Cir. 2005)

    The Firm obtained summary judgment on collateral estoppel grounds for defendants Kensington Publishing Corp. and author and former DEA agent Jerry Speziale on claims brought by Paul Lir Alexander for invasion of privacy and violation of right of publicity by Speziale’s inclusion of information about Alexander’s role as a DEA informant in his book Without a Badge.More

  • October 11, 2002

    82 U.S.P.Q.2d 1319 (S.D.N.Y. 2007); No. 01 Civ. 3192 (CLB) (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 11, 2001), aff’d, 2002 WL 31303241 (2d Cir. Oct. 11, 2002)

    The Firm successfully defended Cab Calloway’s grandson, Christopher Brooks, against multiple attempts by his step-grandmother, her family, and their company to prevent him from performing his grandfather’s music under the name “The Cab Calloway Orchestra.”More

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