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· 6/5/1912

McGee v. Vanover

Citations

  • 148 Ky. 737
  • 147 S.W. 742
  • 1912 Ky. LEXIS 534

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  • finding preemption of football players’ right-of-publicity claims where defendant owned the exclusive copyright in the video footage
  • “[A] claim for a violation of the right to publicity against a copyrighted work will lie only if that work is used for advertising, not in an expressive work.”

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Judges: Settle, Whole

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