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· 2/26/1957

Wolther v. Viglione

Citations

  • 3 A.D.2d 707
  • 160 N.Y.S.2d 807
  • 1957 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 6370

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that right of publicity did not apply to book entitled “Marilyn” and rejecting alleged distinction between a “biography” about Marilyn Monroe and “fiction”
  • “It is enough that the book is a literary work and not simply a disguised commercial advertisement for the sale of goods or services.”

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