A Victory for Creators and Licensors in Maloney vs T3 Ninth Circuit Decision

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Maloney v. T3Media By Brianna Dahlberg of Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard LLPOn April 5, 2017, in a victory for visual content creators and licensors, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by former college athletes alleging that T3Media had misappropriated their names and likenesses by selling licenses to photographs from the NCAA Photo Library. The Ninth Circuit held that the athletes’ claims for right of publicity and unfair competition under California law were preempted by the federal Copyright Act.Read the entire article here.

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