How Sports, Celebrities, and Videogames Reshape the Law of Publicity

By Gregory Curtner and Suzanne Larimore Wahl, of Schiff Hardin LLP   What do sports, celebrities, and videogames have in common? All are involved in recent or current cases claiming violations of right of publicity[1] or otherwise protected intellectual property.[2]   Sports   One of the more interesting recent cases is University of Alabama Board of Trustees v. New Life Art, Inc., which involved a painter of noteworthy University of Alabama sports scenes. The painter, Daniel Moor