Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Bliss
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided January 24, 2017No. 15-CV-10167(RA)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER & OPINION
RONNIE ABRAMS, United States District Judge:
Plaintiff Shoshana Roberts, an actress, starred in a video highlighting street harassment of women that went “viral” and has been seen over 41 million times on the internet. Without her knowledge or consent, the video was licensed by the maker of the video, Defendants Rob Bliss and Rob Bliss Creative, LLC (collectively “Bliss”), to an advertisement agency, which used it to create an advertisement for Defendant TGI Friday’s Inc. to promote its appetizers (hereinafter the “advertisement” or “ad”). The ad superimposes graphic images of…
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