Intellectual Property
Jun. 28, 2003
'Winters' and 'Comedy III' Still Leave Courts With Gray Area
Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By David Halberstadter - Earlier this month, the state Supreme Court issued its newest decision balancing a celebrity's right of publicity against an author's First Amendment rights. Winter v. DC Comics , 2003 DJDAR 5834 (Cal. June 2, 2003), involved claims by musician brothers Edgar and Johnny Winter that a series of comic books misappropriated their likenesses for villainous, half-worm, half-human characters named Edgar and Johnny Autumn.
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