United States Ninth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-music company in a suit brought by a professional vocalist and recording artist for misappropriating her voice and name in a song is affirmed where the district court properly found that the Copyright Act preempted plaintiff's claims for violation of her common law right to privacy and her statutory right of publicity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/24/2006
• Published 05/24/2006

Judges

• BYBEE, Circuit Judge., Before FARRIS, FERNANDEZ, and BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rickey Ivie and Kendall E. James of Ivie, McNeill & Wyatt, Los Angeles, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Russell J. Frackman, David A. Steinberg, and Paul Guelpa of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for Defendant-Appellee.