William M. Sonny Landham v. Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• “The right of publicity is a creature of state common law and statute and originated as part of the common-law right of privacy.”
• “The defendant’s act of misappropriating the plaintiff’s identity, however, may be sufficient evidence of commercial value.”
• “the right of publicity isn’t aimed at or limited to false endorsements….”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).