NFL Secures Victory in Publicity Rights Case

By Jonathan Zavin, W. Allan Edmiston, David Grossman , Jonathan Neil Strauss , Tal Dickstein, and Meg Charendoff, of Loeb & Loeb LLP   District court grants summary judgment in favor of NFL and against former professional football players who claimed that NFL’s use of video footage of players in games violated their publicity rights, finding that First Amendment protected use of game footage and outweighed plaintiffs’ publicity rights.   Plaintiffs John Frederick Dryer, Elvin Lamon