April 05, 2017
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit two former Division III college basketball players brought against a website that sold official NCAA photos, saying the players' publicity right claims are preempted by the website's rights under federal copyright law.
May 04, 2016
Two former Division III college basketball players struck back against a company that sold photos of them in action in an effort to revive their proposed class action over publicity rights, telling the Ninth Circuit that if the dismissal of their suit is allowed to stand it would undermine decades of cases finding publicity rights in a person's likeness itself.
February 22, 2016
A company at the center of a proposed class action over the sale of photographs featuring former NCAA basketball players urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to affirm the suit's dismissal, arguing the players' right-of-publicity claims were barred by both the Copyright Act and the First Amendment.
December 08, 2015
The players unions of all the major U.S. professional sports leagues on Monday filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit supporting the bid of two former NCAA basketball players to revive a putative class action against a company that sold photos of them in action.
November 24, 2015
Two former college basketball players told the Ninth Circuit that a California federal court wrongly dismissed their putative class action against a company that sold photos of them in action, arguing the lower court failed to distinguish between the copyright for the photos and the players' publicity rights.