United States Ninth Circuit

Federal copyright law does not preempt a California state law claim for right of publicity even if the publisher purchased the copyright of the picture used in its advertisement.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/07/2001
• Decided 09/13/2001
• Published 09/13/2001

Judges

• HUG, Circuit Judge:, Before:  HUG and B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and KING, District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brent H. Blakely, Manhattan Beach, California, for the appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Joel McCabe Smith and David Aronoff, Leopold, Petrich & Smith, P.C., Los Angeles, California, for the appellee.