Lewis v. Marriott International, Inc.

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• holding that the unauthorized use of a person’s name for commercial purposes is sufficient to state a right of publicity claim
• reiterating that Pennsylvania has “expressly recognized a cause of action for invasion of privacy by appropriation of name or likeness.”
• analyzing the torts of misappropriation of publicity and invasion of privacy by misappropriation of identity as two separate and distinct torts
• not performing a secondary meaning analysis to a misappropriation of name claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).