Doyle v. Tidewater Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• enjoining a third party from using the name or likeness of inventor Thomas Edison to promote its own products
• enjoining a company from using the name or likeness of Thomas Edison to promote its products
• enjoining a third party from using the name or likeness of inventor Thomas Edison to promote its own products
• “It is certain that a man in public life may not claim the same immunity from publicity that a private citizen may.”
• involving use of plaintiff's photograph on defendant's medicinal product
• “[I]t is difficult to understand why the peculiar cast of one’s features is not ... one’s property, and why its pecuniary value, if it has one, does not belong to its owner, rather than to the person seeking to make an unauthorized use of it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).