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28 Jun 2022, 8:58 am by Jessica Engler and Mary Love
Court of Appeals found Vanna White could seek damages from Samsung for an advertisement involving a futuristic female robot turning the letters on a game show board.[3] Although the advertisement did not mention Vanna White by name, or use her actual image, the court held Samsung may have violated the law by “attempt[ing] to capitalize on White’s fame to enhance their fortune. [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 6:56 pm
" He took it really well, even taking on the role of Vanna White and beautifully displaying the present value calculator we use from Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company. [read post]
5 May 2010, 3:11 pm by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
  Our make-up artist also does Vanna White and had just come back from a shoot in the Philippines with the hostess and famous right of publicity plaintiff. [read post]
11 Dec 2023, 5:30 am by jonathanturley
Samsung, a perfectly ludicrous ruling in which Vanna White successfully sued over the use of a robot with a blonde wig turning cards as the appropriation of her name or likeness. [read post]
23 Jan 2014, 7:11 am by Ben
Critics say that judges sided with film studios in the early 1980s when the studios sued Sony for infringing their copyrights by selling the Betamax video recorders (the Supreme Court reversed that decision), and a majority sided with "Wheel of Fortune" TV personality Vanna White when she claimed her "right to publicity" had been violated by a commercial spoof featuring a robot with a blond wig who stood next to big block letters. [read post]
23 Sep 2021, 9:11 am by Nicholas J. Krob
It has been enforced successfully by or on behalf of the likes of Johnny Carson, Clint Eastwood, Vanna White, Bette Midler, and the Three Stooges. [read post]
11 Jul 2023, 5:27 am by jonathanturley
Evers is not the first to use what is called the Vanna White veto of flipping around words or numbers. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 7:19 am by Eric Goldman
The team names: Team 1: Khal Drogo Team 2: Khal Drone Go Team 3: Dragons Are Prior Art for Drones Team 4: Drone on Copyright (1879) Team 5: Red Flag Knowledge Wedding Team 6: A Team Has No Name Team 7: House TradeStarks Team 8: droner-morghulis Other team name ideas I liked: Aerial Stark, Dronecarys, and Vanna White-Walkers. [read post]
8 Nov 2009, 12:25 pm
  In this case, a portrayal of a robotic figure intending to humorously depict Vanna White was deemed in violation of Ms. [read post]
4 Jun 2018, 9:39 am by Rebecca Tushnet
  Jury found that robot was Vanna White, and that she was endorsing the TV being advertised. [read post]
7 Jun 2023, 9:05 pm by William McDonald
Schultz notes that courts have found right-of-publicity violations in the past when advertisements used identifiable characteristics of celebrities without their consent, such as when a Samsung ad featured a robotic game show host modeled after Wheel of Fortune co-host Vanna White. [read post]
28 Nov 2022, 5:00 am by jonathanturley
Samsung, a perfectly ludicrous ruling in which Vanna White successfully sued over the use of a robot with a blonde wig turning cards as the appropriation of her name or likeness. [read post]
7 Feb 2012, 9:41 am by admin
  In the famous 1992 “Vanna White case”, Ms. [read post]
9 Feb 2016, 12:43 pm by Venkat Balasubramani
Yet, we have seen plenty of other publicity rights cases where the court stretches to find the plaintiff identifiable without the use of any of those attributes, such as the Vanna White v. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 11:21 am by Rebecca Tushnet
I don’t recall courts relying on the idea that Motschenbacher designed his car; and Kozinski’s White dissent pointed out that Vanna White didn’t design her costumes, jewelry, and setting. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 11:12 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Samsung is a perfect example—somehow when I see a robot I’m confused and I think the robot is the Vanna White mark. [read post]