State Court Affirms Model’s Right to Sue for Unauthorized Use of Her Photo in an AIDS Public Service Advertisement

New York Supreme Court Justice Anil C. Singh rejected a motion by an “image distributor” to dismiss a model’s lawsuit seeking compensatory and punitive damages for the unauthorized publication of her picture in a public service advertisement placed in print media by the New York State Division of Human Rights to inform people living with HIV about legal protection from discrimination. The March 6 ruling was published in The New York Law Journal on March … <Read More>