3rd Circuit: CDA Doesn’t Bar TV Anchor’s Publicity Rights Claim Against Facebook

Mealey's (October 19, 2021, 1:47 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — The limitation that prevents the immunity provisions of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) from applying to intellectual property claims extends to a news anchor’s Pennsylvania law publicity rights claim against Facebook Inc., a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held in a precedential Sept. 23 ruling, vacating a trial court’s dismissal of Karen Hepp’s claim related to the misappropriation of her likeness by the social network in an advertisement....