The federal appellate court in Virginia today reversed a decision that had allowed a website to use a stock photo to illustrate its...

Claims of commercial appropriation of a person’s identity — “the right of publicity” — require drawing a line between editorial and...

I recently noted that a federal district court in New York held that models who were not sufficiently famous to be generally recognized...

The short window for bringing a right of publicity claim has saved many advertisers from having to pay for an unauthorized use of a...

Sometimes a model is just a model.  To paraphrase David Ogilvy, "the consumer is not an idiot; he or she is your significant other."...