Watch out for IP content lurking in billboards!

IPBiz has covered several "right of publicity" cases [below] but one of the more unusual is that of Angelyne against Fox Searchlight Pictures.

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Angelyne Billboard Queen Sues Fox

Billboard Bimbo Sues Fox Searchlight , which states: File this under “Washed Up Celeb Begging For Money” news. Angelyne, relative non-celebrity, is suing Fox Searchlight because a billboard of herself appears on screen for about 12 seconds in the 2009 Notorious B.I.G. biopic Notorious, according to TMZ. Apparently Fox effed up by not getting the rights to use the image because now she's looking for payment.

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