Hicks v. Casablanca Records

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[M]ore so than posters, bubble gum cards, or some other such ‘merchandise’, books and movies are vehicles through which ideas and opinions are disseminated and, as such, have enjoyed certain constitutional protections, not generally accorded ‘merchandise.’ ”
• Agatha Christie’s right of publicity was devisable because exploited during her life
• interest survives only if exploited during lifetime
• court finds no cause of action “where a fictionalized aceount of an event in the life of a public figure is depicted in a novel or a movie, and in such novel or movie it is evident to the public that the events so depicted are fictitious.”
• interest survives only if exploited during lifetime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).