Re: Rights in real characters

On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Robert Cumbow <cumbr[_at_]perkinscoie.com> wrote:
>
> Because parody is First Amendment protected comment, it can be a very
> good defense to a claim of RoP violation. It didn't work in White v.
> Samsung Electronics America, Inc., 971 F.2d 1395 (9th Cir. 1992), reh'g
> en banc denied, 989 F.2d 1512, cert. denied, 508 U.S. 951 (1993);

Just out of curiosity: can anyone cite to a right-of-publicity case that is more wrongly decided than White v. Samsung?

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