Sentences with phrase «on rights of publicity»

A California attorney has dropped his putative class action against Avvo in which he claimed that by using attorneys» names and likenesses on its website, Avvo was violating California's laws on rights of publicity and unfair competition.

(At this point, I can't help but mention that in recent years the late Mr. Hendrix also has become legendary in Seattle courts for his role in fashioning decisions on the right of publicity and the trademark use of his likeness, signature, and name in connection with commercial products like artwork and vodka.)

Not exact matches

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Our unions have been discussing the potential impact of legalized gambling on players» privacy and publicity rights, the integrity of our games and the volatility on our businesses.

Fayose said; «It is on record that on June 10, 2013, it was widely reported in the media that the current Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who was the National Publicity Secretary of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) said that the proscription of Boko Haram was against the constitution, that it stifled the press and tampered with the fundamental human rights of Nigerians.

Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity (left); Sam Ohuabunwa, Chairman of Occasion (second left); Yinka Oguntimehin, National Publicity Secretary, Oodua People Congress (middle); Bisi Kazeem, Corp Public Education Officer, Federal Road safety Corp (second right), and Tony Okonedo, Manager, Corporate Communications and Public Affairs, NLNG, during the second anniversary lecture / awards of Global Patriot Newspapers in Lagos on Thursday.

Embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, on Monday filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit before a Federal High Court in Lagos, demanding his immediate release from custody.

Participants must produce a video of the participant dancing his / her own PhD, solo or as part of an ensemble, and must (1) post that video on YouTube (and comply with all rules and regulations of YouTube, including permission to use any music included in the video, as well as rights to show the individuals depicted in the video); and (2) allow AAAS / Science Magazine to use the video for publicity.

Winners will be notified by e-mail on or about September 8, 2011 and will be required to sign and return, where legal, an Affidavit of Eligibility, Liability / Publicity Release and / or rights transfer document within ten (10) days of prize notification.

You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Photos you tag using the hashtag #southmoonunder or otherwise have the right to grant the rights and licenses set forth in these terms and conditions; (ii) the posting and use of your Photos on South Moon Under's page or timeline on Twitter, Instagram, or Faceook and on the website located at southmoonunder.com, does not violate, misappropriate or infringe on the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, trademark and / or other intellectual property rights; and (iii) you have the legal right and capacity to enter into these terms and conditions.

The court dismissed the plaintiff's tort claims for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress — but didn't dismiss her claim based on her «right of publicity».

You will not post on the «Passions Network» service, or transmit to other «Passions Network» Members or Employees, any defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, obscene, profane, offensive, sexually oriented, threatening, harassing, rude, racially offensive, or illegal material, or any material that infringes or violates another party's rights (including, but not limited to, intellectual property rights, and rights of privacy and publicity).

Because your policy of suspending students who get into fights on school grounds will be said to have had an «adverse impact» on black students, you will face, at minimum, the negative publicity that comes from a civil rights investigation.

Typing «publicity» into the search box on the right generates a list of articles, as does searching for «media.»

There are a lot of marketing and publicity options, but what's right for you and your book depends on a number of factors, including your book's genre, target audience, and themes.

Because no matter how important blogging, social media, publicity and other forms of outreach are for getting your work in front of the right eyeballs, your email list is the only thing — if nurtured — that will allow you to directly and personally communicate with your readers on an ongoing basis.»

She has worn many hats — she's published with major New York houses, then broke away and created her own imprint; has successfully published over 20 books and sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies; understands niche publishing and marketing; has created publicity campaigns for her own work that landed her on Oprah, Donahue, CNN and even grabbed a cover story in People magazine; she's penetrated the foreign rights market with her work in 16 countries to date; she has guided and coached many others from creation to completion of their work; she has created and chair several publishing conferences; and she has successfully turned several publishing disasters into successful outcomes for their authors.

Customer also grants to BBS the right to make excerpts from the Book viewable on BBS» website, or third - party websites that have entered into agreements with BBS, in order to facilitate sales of and publicity for the Book.

This could be following up on pitches (I pitch books mid-week, never Monday or Friday), chasing contracts and money, organizing promotional plans for a client's book with marketing and publicity, chatting with my colleagues about their work, forwarding reviews of client books to our foreign rights manager for her book fair catalogues, consulting with clients about cover design, talking to clients about new book ideas and many more things!

One of the many questions and subjects to be ironed out with the digital model, I would hope that if you asked for a refund one would be granted or as you pointed out you can read the digital copy when it is unlocked on the real release date, though for the very small amount of digital users right now I wonder why Marvel took it upon themselves to fix the problem this way and generate the bad publicity — just look at what happend to Amazon.

It takes on the cost of production all forms, marketing the work to book vendors large and small in all the licensed forms, distributing and shipping, distribution of e-books, managing sales and accounting, sub-licenses of granted subsidiary rights, and in addition will do some publicity to further market and sell the books, ranging on their estimates of what will be most cost effective.

If you believe that any of the Contributed Material on the Sites infringes your copyright or trademark rights or your rights of publicity, please provide PetSmart Charities» agent, namely its General Counsel, the requested information as set forth in the Section entitled «Notice of Claims of Intellectual Property Violations» in the Terms of Use.

You will not, and will not allow or authorize others to, use the Services, the Sites or any Materials therein to take any actions that: (i) infringe on PetSmart Charities» or any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual or proprietary rights, or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including those regarding export control); (iii) are defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, stalking, harassment, abusive, tortuous, hateful, constitute discrimination based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sex, disability or other protected grounds, or are pornographic or obscene; (iv) interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on PetSmart Charities or its licensors or suppliers» infrastructure; (v) involve knowingly distributing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines; (vi) involve the preparation and / or distribution of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «pyramid schemes» or other deceptive online marketing practices, or any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email or otherwise in a manner that violate any applicable «anti-spam» legislation, including that commonly referred to as «CASL»; (vii) would be or encourage conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national or international laws or regulations; (viii) involve the unauthorized entry to any machine accessible via the Services or interference with the Sites or any servers or networks connected to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites, or attempt to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation accessing data to which you are not the intended recipient or logging into a server or account for which you are not expressly authorized); (ix) impersonate any person or entity, including, without limitation, one of PetSmart Charities» or another party's officers or employees, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (x) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Sites; (xi) collect or store personal data about other account users or attempt to gain access to other account users» accounts or otherwise mine information about other account users or the Sites, or interfere with any other user's ability to access or use the Sites; (xii) execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Sites» servers or any data not intended for you; (xiii) attempt to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or from the Sites; or (xiv) in PetSmart Charities» sole discretion, are contrary to PetSmart Charities» public image, goodwill, reputation or mission, or otherwise not in furtherance of our Vision of a lifelong, loving home for every pet.

PetSmart Charities does not permit the use of content on the Sites that infringes on the copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity or other intellectual property of others, and will remove any such content that violates the copyright or trademarks or other rights of others if properly notified of such violation in accordance with the procedure set forth in these Terms of Use.

If you believe that any of the content on the Sites infringes your copyright or trademark rights or your rights of publicity, please provide PetSmart Charities» agent, namely its General Counsel (whose contact information provided below), with the following information:

You will not, and will not allow or authorize others to, use the Services or the Sites to take any actions that: (i) infringe on any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy; (ii) violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including those regarding export control); (iii) are defamatory, trade libelous, threatening, harassing, invasive of privacy, stalking, harassment, abusive, tortuous, hateful, discriminatory based on race, ethnicity, gender, sex or disability, pornographic or obscene; (iv) interfere with or disrupt any services or equipment with the intent of causing an excessive or disproportionate load on the Animal League or its licensors or suppliers» infrastructure; (v) involve knowingly distributing viruses, Trojan horses, worms, or other similar harmful or deleterious programming routines; (vi) involve the preparation and / or distribution of «junk mail», «spam», «chain letters», «pyramid schemes» or other deceptive online marketing practices or any unsolicited bulk email or unsolicited commercial email or otherwise in a manner that violate the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN - SPAM Act of 2003); (vii) would encourage conduct that could constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, federal or international laws, rules or regulations; (viii) involve the unauthorized entry to any machine accessible via the Services or interfere with the Sites or any servers or networks connected to the Sites or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Sites, or attempt to breach the security of or disrupt Internet communications on the Sites (including without limitation accessing data to which you are not the intended recipient or logging into a server or account for which you are not expressly authorized); (ix) impersonate any person or entity, including, without limitation, one of the Animal League's or other's officers or employees, or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with a person or entity; (x) forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any information transmitted through the Sites; (xi) collect or store personal data about other Animal League members, Site users or attempt to gain access to other Animal League members information, or otherwise mine information about Animal League members, Site users, or the Sites; (xii) execute any form of network monitoring or run a network analyzer or packet sniffer or other technology to intercept, decode, mine or display any packets used to communicate between the Sites» servers or any data not intended for you; (xiii) attempt to circumvent authentication or security of any content, host, network or account («cracking») on or from the Sites; or (xiv) are contrary to the Animal League's public image, goodwill, reputation or mission or otherwise not in furtherance of the Animal Leagues stated purposes.

a claim that any use of the Petzam Site by you or someone using your mobile device (or account, where applicable) infringes on any intellectual property right of any third party, or any right of personality or publicity, is libelous or defamatory, or otherwise results in injury or damage to any third party;

Works of art appearing on the Site may be protected by copyright, trademark, or publicity rights or other interests that are not owned by PAF.

But those kinds of risks are better to take than the kind you've focused on, because (in my view, anyway) you're right: not all publicity is good.

Rights Granted by You: By entering this content (e.g., photo, video, text, etc.), You do not relinquish your intellectual property rights, but You understand and agree that Tiny House Design & Living LLC, anyone acting on behalf of Tiny House Design & Living LLC, and Tiny House Design & Living LLC's licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the Campaign, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes, without any further compensation, notice, review, or coRights Granted by You: By entering this content (e.g., photo, video, text, etc.), You do not relinquish your intellectual property rights, but You understand and agree that Tiny House Design & Living LLC, anyone acting on behalf of Tiny House Design & Living LLC, and Tiny House Design & Living LLC's licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the Campaign, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes, without any further compensation, notice, review, or corights, but You understand and agree that Tiny House Design & Living LLC, anyone acting on behalf of Tiny House Design & Living LLC, and Tiny House Design & Living LLC's licensees, successors, and assigns, shall have the right, where permitted by law, to print, publish, broadcast, distribute, and use in any media now known or hereafter developed, in perpetuity and throughout the World, without limitation, your entry, name, portrait, picture, voice, likeness, image, statements about the Campaign, and biographical information for news, publicity, information, trade, advertising, public relations, and promotional purposes, without any further compensation, notice, review, or consent.

This hasn't been a great month for Apple: bad publicity for waging war on the little guy and the art of self - repair with the Pentalobe screw, the unfortunate news that Steve Jobs» health has taken a bad turn, and now a report coming out of China that puts the company last in a list of 29 tech giants ranked for their responses on pollution and workers» rights, including occupational health hazards, at their suppliers» factories.The report, written by the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs with a coalition of other Chinese NGOs, says that behind the company's stylish image, «Apple products have a side that many do not know about — pollution and poison.

Further, their perception of content found on the internet as belonging to the public domain, may lead to copyright infringement, as well as infringement of publicity and private rights.

An accomplished entertainment attorney, Mr. Rozansky will focus on disputes in areas including entertainment finance, profit participation, partnership disputes, trade secrets, reality television, anti-SLAPP, rights of privacy and publicity and First Amendment issues.

Following the editing process, the plaintiff appears in the Bridgeport publicity video for 2 seconds, on the right third of the screen.

We focus on the domestic and international protection of trademarks, trade secrets, trade dress under the Lanham Act and other laws and copyrights, rights of publicity and privacy.

His practice focuses on all aspects of the entertainment industry, representing clients in the film, television and music industries in matters involving accounting and profit participation claims, copyright and trademark disputes, right of publicity, idea submissions, breach of contract, defamation, employment and insurance.

Liner's litigation practice focuses on entertainment and media disputes involving defamation, right of publicity, privacy invasion, copyright and trademark infringement, and cases relating to brand protection, crisis management and unfair business practices.

a balancing test between the First Amendment and the right of publicity based on whether the work in question adds significant creative elements so as to be transformed into something more than a mere celebrity likeness or imitation

The appellate judges heavily relied on Guglielmi v. Spelling - Goldberg Productions (Gugliemi) to determine that FX had a first Amendment Protection against a right of publicity claim.

You must not do the following things: post material that is copyrighted, unless you are the copyright owner or have the permission of the copyright owner to post it; post material that reveals trade secrets, unless you own them or have the permission of the owner; post material that infringes on any other intellectual property rights of others or on the privacy or publicity rights of others; post material that is obscene, profane, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to another user of our website or any other person or entity; post a sexually - explicit image; post advertisements or solicitations of business; post chain letters or pyramid schemes; or impersonate another person.

Irene Lee is a partner at Russ August & Kabat, where she focuses her practice on all aspects of intellectual property, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secrets, right of publicity, and technology licensing.

Explain why Beautified is or is not liable on Kardashian's right of publicity claim under California law.

Our attorneys have litigated on behalf of defendants and plaintiffs in a wide variety of entertainment matters, including disputes alleging copyright, trademark, and trade dress infringement; right of publicity violations; idea theft; breaches of licensing and distribution, participation, film financing, and executive employment agreements; trade secret violations; and a variety of fraud, interference, personal injury, and other tort actions.

Publicity should be tightly managed having regard to any orders of the court, interests of parties without infringing the procedural rights of all participants, the nature of the proceedings (open or closed) and with careful consideration of the effect of publicity on each prPublicity should be tightly managed having regard to any orders of the court, interests of parties without infringing the procedural rights of all participants, the nature of the proceedings (open or closed) and with careful consideration of the effect of publicity on each prpublicity on each proceeding.

Brian is the leader of the firm's social, mobile and emerging media industry group and is a litigator with 15 years of experience focusing his practice on intellectual property matters related to copyright, trademark, trade dress, and publicity rights.

Whether they are known as premier copyright or trademark lawyers, experienced advisors on First Amendment or right of publicity issues, business litigators, dealmakers, or something else, these lawyers have one thing in common: They understand the highly complex and constantly changing challenges distinct to companies in the content, media and entertainment industries.

This Restatement provision states that» [o] ne who appropriates the commercial value of a person's identity by using without consent the person's name, likeness, or other indicia of identity for purposes of trade is subject to liability...» Relying on the Restatement, the Missouri Supreme Court held in TCI, 110 S.W. 3d at 369, that «the elements of a right of publicity action include: (1) That defendant used plaintiff's name as a symbol of his identity (2) without consent (3) and with the intent to obtain a commercial advantage.»

In addition, Ms. Seligman advises on the full complement of advertising and marketing law issues, including claims and substantiation, native advertising, social media, mobile marketing and laws governing intellectual property and rights of publicity and privacy.

In August 2015, a California federal court granted Weil's motion for summary judgment on behalf of CBS Interactive Inc. (CBSI) in another landmark right of publicity case (Lightbourne) that dismissed all of plaintiff's claims.

In addition, Jenevieve counsels clients on copyright, social media, right of publicity, false advertising, and related issues.