Miller v. Coosa Co.

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• noting that a plaintiff cannot recover under N.Y. Civ. Rights Law §§ 50-51 without proving that he “is capable of being identified from the advertisement alone and that plaintiff has been so identified”
• requiring that “that plaintiff be capable of identification from the objectionable material itself”
• “The statute protects against the appropriation of a plaintiffs name or likeness for defendants’ benefit.”
• “Although the tort has assumed various forms in other jurisdictions, in New York privacy claims are founded solely upon sections 50 and 51 of the Civil Rights Law.” (citation omitted)

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