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LENNY GRODIN, Respondent, v. LIBERTY CABLE et al., Appellants.

It being clear, as the IAS Court found, that defendants made no effort to obtain plaintiff's consent to the reuse of his image and voice, either through the means set forth in the Screen Actors Guild agreement or otherwise, plaintiff cannot be held to the provisions of that agreement waiving the protections of Civil Rights Law §§ 50 and 51 (compare, Welch v. Carson Prods. Group, 791 F.2d 13, cert denied 479 U.S. 1007). To hold otherwise would be to deprive plaintiff of "appropriate compensation" for the unauthorized reuse of his image and voice (see, supra, at 17). The IAS Court also correctly found that whether the reuse of plaintiff's likeness was too incidental to afford any viable breach of privacy claims, whether the licensing agreement prohibited the commercial in which plaintiff appeared, and whether the licensees obtained the licensors' consent to the commercial, are all issues of fact. However, it was error not to dismiss plaintiff's causes of action for negligence and unjust enrichment, there being no common-law right of privacy in New York (see, Stephano v. News Group Publs., 64 N.Y.2d 174, 183; Hampton v. Guare, 195 A.D.2d 366, lv denied 82 N.Y.2d 659).

Concur — Murphy, P. J., Rosenberger, Ellerin, Rubin and Tom, JJ.

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GRODIN v. LIBERTY CABLE
(Nov 6, 1997)