We know how, when and where individuals’ names and images can be used in fictional, documentary and news settings.  We are intimately familiar with right of publicity and misappropriation of likeness claims, and we litigate such claims routinely.

• Tyne v. Time Warner Entertainment Co., 901 So.2d 802 (Fla. 2005). Counsel for amici curiae motion picture company association, publishing associations and others, urging Florida Supreme Court to apply Florid a’s right of publicity statute in a manner consistent with the First Amendment, which the Court did.
  
  
• Successfully defended studio against copyright, false designation of origin and misappropriation claims based on parodied reference to comedienne on "Family Guy," an animated television program.
  
  
• O’Grady v. Twentieth Century Fox, Northern District of Texas. Represented cable television network against fighter pilot downed behind enemy lines in Bosnia conflict who was claiming invasion of right of publicity and trademark infringement.
  
  
• Hood v. National Enquirer, Los Angeles Superior Court. Right of publicity case involving the use of a celebrity’s child’s image.