Legal Opinion
Shields v. Gross
New York Court of Appeals
Decided March 29, 1983PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Simons, J.
The issue on this appeal is whether an infant model may disaffirm a prior unrestricted consent executed on her behalf by her parent and maintain an action pursuant to section 51 of the Civil Rights Law against her photographer for republication of photographs of her. We hold that she may not.
Plaintiff is now a well-known actress. For many years prior to these events she had been a child model and in 1975, when she was 10 years of age, she obtained several modeling jobs with defendant through her agent, the Ford Model Agency. One of the jobs, a series of…
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