California lacked personal jurisdiction over Hyundai because its Korea-only Casper SUV campaign was not deliberately aimed at California.
India’s Bombay High Court ordered Google, Meta, and X to remove approximately 275 deepfake videos, AI-generated chatbot personas, and morphed images exploiting actress Preity Zinta’s name and likeness — marking one of India’s first significant judicial interventions against AI-generated personality-rights violations.
In the fourth trial of the OMG Girlz doll case, a Los Angeles jury finds MGA Entertainment owes no punitive damages to T.I. and Tiny Harris — leaving the prior $17.8 million compensatory award intact while rejecting the bid for up to $125 million more.
A federal magistrate judge in the Northern District of California ruled that multimedia rights companies serving university athletic departments are not categorically exempt from College Sports Commission review under the $2.78 billion House v. NCAA name, image, and likeness settlement.
The Third Circuit reversed dismissal of Mike Huckabee’s right-of-publicity suit against Meta over fake CBD endorsement ads, finding that three factors — Huckabee’s well-known opposition to cannabis, Meta’s history of hosting similar fake-celebrity ads, and a link to a fake Fox News site — plausibly established that Meta knew or should have known the ads were fraudulent.
The Seventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of right of publicity, doxing, and defamation claims arising from Facebook dating-group posts, holding that Meta’s ad-based revenue model does not create a ‘commercial purpose’ under Illinois law merely because advertisements appear near user-generated content featuring someone’s likeness.
A federal court denied Academia.edu’s Section 230 defense and rejected all four attempts to compel arbitration in a class action alleging the platform used professors’ names in commercial advertisements without consent.