Village of Greenwood Lake v. Riley

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the common law right of publicity “generally provides remedies for any commercialization of the individual’s personality without his consent”
• finding right of publicity under New York law limited to statutory protection of “name, portrait or picture”
• “ ‘right of publicity’ is encompassed under the Civil. Rights Law as an aspect of the right of privacy”
• use of model’s picture in magazine report on fashions not for “purposes of trade” even if published to increase circulation
• statute “should not be construed to apply to publications concerning newsworthy events or matters of public interest”
• “Section 51 creates a cause of action for the invasion of the ‘right of privacy’ granted by section 50.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).