Preston v. Martin Bregman Productions, Inc.

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• holding that four-second facial appearance of unidentified and unnamed plaintiff in a street scene, shot from a moving vehicle in low light, during the opening credits of a movie was incidental use because it contributed nothing to the movie’s storyline
• granting motion to dismiss based, in part, on incidental use exception where plaintiff appeared in Supersize Me documentary for three to four seconds captured by hidden camera
• plaintiff was “shown in only 9 seconds of this full-length motion picture, for 4 1/2 seconds of which her face is visible, in the opening title scenes before the plot begins or any of the characters appear”

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