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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

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  • Copp v. Ramirez

    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

  • Alexander v. AOL Time Warner, Inc.

    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

  • Creative Arts by Calloway, LLC v. Brooks

    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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  • Internet: Advantages Of Word Mark Registrations For Monitoring On Amazon And Facebook

    September 22, 2017

    Amazon is quickly becoming a key retail platform for nearly all brand owners.  Similarly, Facebook ads are often a critical part of any online advertising campaign and Facebook’s Marketplace is quickly gaining in importance.  However, as many brand owners can attest, it can be hard to monitor who is selling branded merchandise improperly or misusing trademarks or copyrighted content at these sites. More

  • Laura Popp-Rosenberg & Todd Martin Discuss Online Threats in CLE

    February 23, 2021

    As part of Fross Zelnick’s quarterly CLE series, Laura Popp-Rosenberg and Todd Martin conducted a CLE entitled Online Threats: Strategies to Identify, Report, and Prevent Infringing Content and Phishing, in which they discussed how bad actors frequently appropriate intellectual property,More

  • China: Michael Jordan Scores over Chinese Trademark Pirate after Nine-year Battle

    February 25, 2021

    By Sahil Yadav

    Michael Jeffrey Jordan v. Qiaodan Sport Co. Ltd. and Shanghai Bairen Trading Co. Ltd. , Shanghai No. 2 Intermediate People’s Court, 2020

    A nine-year tussle between NBA legend Michael Jordan and an infamously successful cyber squatter,More

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