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GRAVANO v. TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC.

No. 23.

31 N.Y.3d 988 (2018)

97 N.E.3d 396

73 N.Y.S.3d 787

2018 NY Slip Op 02207

KAREN GRAVANO, Appellant, v. TAKE-TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE, INC., et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of New York.

Decided March 29, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Office of Thomas A. Farinella, PC, New York City ( Thomas A. Farinella of counsel), for appellant.

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York City ( Jeremy Feigelson , Jared I. Kagan and Alexandra P. Swain of counsel), for respondents.

Patrick S. Kabat , The First Amendment and the Arts Project, The Spangenberg Center for Law, Technology & The Arts, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Cleveland, Ohio, for Jarryd Huntley, amicus curiae.

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, New York City ( Robert D. Balin and Samuel M. Bayard of counsel), and Los Angeles, California ( Kelli L. Sager of counsel), for The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. and another, amici curiae.

Jenner & Block LLP, Washington, D.C. ( Kenneth L. Doroshow and Devi M. Rao of counsel), and Stanley Pierre-Louis , Entertainment Software Association, Washington, D.C., for Entertainment Software Association, amicus curiae.

Dentons US LLP, New York City ( Michael A. Bamberger and Richard M. Zuckerman of counsel), for American Booksellers Association and others, amid curiae.

Hartman & Winnicki, P.C., Ridgewood, New Jersey ( Daniel L. Schmutter of counsel), and Eugene Volokh , Scott & Cyan Banister First Amendment Clinic, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, California, for Eric M. Freedman and others, amici curiae.

Chief Judge DiFioRE and Judges RIVERA, STEIN, FAHEY, GARCIA and FEINMAN concur; Judge WILSON taking no part.

OPINION OF THE COURT

MEMORANDUM.

The order of the Appellate Division, insofar as appealed from, should be affirmed, with costs. A computer-generated image may constitute a "portrait" within the meaning of Civil Rights Law §§ 50 and 51 (see Lohan v Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., 31 N.Y.3d 111, 121-122 [2018] [decided herewith]). Plaintiff, however, is not recognizable from the images at issue here...

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