United States Ninth Circuit

In a claim based on the use of Princess Diana's name and likeness on commercial items, denial of a post-mortem right of publicity claim was proper, because the governing law of Great Britain does not recognize such a right; permissible, nominative fair use of a likeness cannot support a false endorsement claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/12/2002
• Decided 06/19/2002
• Published 06/19/2002

Judges

• PREGERSON, Circuit Judge., Before: PREGERSON, RYMER, and T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Barbara A. Solomon,Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C., New York, NY, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert A. Meyer, Douglas E. Mirell and Daniel J. Friedman, Loeb & Loeb LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellees.