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NIL Isn't Just For Athletes — Securing "Name, Image, and Likeness Rights" in Marketing

Potomac Law Group, PLLC on 7/9/2025

You need “name, image, and likeness” (NIL) rights to use an individual’s name, voice, image, or AI replica. The Internet and social media have rapidly multiplied the ways companies can promote their businesses and products,...more

Six Advertising Trends for 2025

DLA Piper on 1/22/2025

As the new year begins, creative advertisers and marketers look for new ways to stay current and get ahead by capitalizing on trends. ...more

Decoded Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 3, April 2024

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/9/2024

Using AI to Build Cyber Resilience for Critical Infrastructure - "Cyber resilience serves as a literal survival strategy, offering a framework to detect threats, understand attacks, recover swiftly, and adapt to...more

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight: Can Celebrity Endorsements Influence Perceptions Around the COVID-19 Vaccine?

Foster Garvey PC on 8/13/2021

- As the pandemic continues, the question arises: Could celebrities be the key to getting the country vaccinated? - Seemingly everyone is coming up a winner in the music business with the top three major companies bringing...more

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight - May 2021 #4

Foster Garvey PC on 5/28/2021

Throughout the United States, people are eagerly preparing for this Memorial Day Weekend (MDW), which marks the unofficial start of summer (not to mention those who made the ultimate sacrifice for the country). If you listen...more

Sports & Entertainment Spotlight - April 2021 #3

Foster Garvey PC on 4/15/2021

“Happy” Tax Day to those of you here in the United States celebrating/commiserating (noting of course that certain taxpayers have until May 17 to file their returns this year). Like taxes, this installment of the Spotlight...more

Celebrities, personality rights and privacy: what marketers need to know about permission

Smart & Biggar on 1/17/2018

William Shatner made headlines in November when he took to Twitter to express his displeasure that his name and likeness were used without his permission to promote a condo development in Hamilton, Ontario. The development in...more

Social Media Brings the Right of Publicity to the Masses

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog on 10/8/2015

Do you consider yourself famous? If the answer is no, then you have likely never been concerned with the invasion of your right of publicity. The right of publicity is the right of a person in his or her identity—name or...more

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