Legal Opinion
Fry v. Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
District Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided March 24, 2023No. 3:22-cv-00140Unknown
1Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA SOUTH BEND DIVISION JASON FRY, Plaintiff, v. Case No. 3:22-CV-140 JD ANCESTRY.COM OPERATIONS INC., et al., Defendants. OPINION AND ORDER Ancestry.com1 uses the school yearbook photos and names of many people to advertise its subscription-based genealogy website without the knowledge or consent of those depicted. Jason Fry, an Indiana resident, is one such person. He brings the instant suit on behalf of himself and other similarly situated Indiana residents, whose common law and statutory rights of publicity have been violated by…
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