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3 results for “Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al.”

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23-228 Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. California 2023-09-12 Denied advertising brand-logos celebrity-persona celebrity-rights commercial-speech commercial-use lanham-act motion-picture trademark-infringement Does the Lanham Act prohibit the unauthorized use of a celebrity's persona in advertising third party brands with logos in a commercial motion picture…
23A46 Paule McKenna v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. California 2023-07-18 Presumed Complete anti-SLAPP commercial-speech first-amendment lanham-act right-of-publicity trademark-infringement Whether the First Amendment protects the use of a person's likeness in a commercial film from liability under the Lanham Act and state right of public…
18-63 Steve K. Wilson Briggs v. Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights copyright copyright-claims copyright-law court-procedure due-process free-speech intellectual-property internet-guidelines legal-precedent patent precedent standing Whether by failing to clarify and update internet-access-guidelines, U.S. courts imperil the rights of U.S. intellectual-property-owners