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MarketWatch.com Marilyn Monroe Goes Virtual With Legends Licensing & Artopia!Posted December 2, 2008Legends Licensing, LLC ( www.legendslicensing.com) has teamed up with high-end Internet e-store Artopia (www.artopia.com) in a direct-to-consumer deal featuring high-quality, fully customizable products featuring the single largest and most diverse collection of Marilyn Monroe photographic images in the world. The site has gone live with extensive ongoing national consumer advertising support, including OK Magazine and Star Magazine.read more... Good Morning America Joshua Greene InterviewJoshua Greene provides background information about "But That's Another Story," the definitive collection of Milton Greene's photography. View Video Men.Style.com Frank Sinatra was coldPosted by Jared Paul Stern, November 24, 2008Milton Greene led the sort of life that inspires envy: The photographer shot hundreds of covers for Look and Life in the fifties and sixties, lived with Marilyn Monroe, went fishing with Paul Newman, and hung out on the Cape with Norman Mailer and in Hollywood with Steve McQueen. (Nice work if you could get it.) read more... Woment On The Web (WOWOWOW) Photographer Milton Greene's Wife Pays Tribute ... and Reveals the Truth of the Tale of Marilyn Monroe's VeilPosted November 20, 2008Amy fell in love with Milton in 1952. They were introduced by another famed photographer, Richard Avedon. Amy was in front of the Sherry Netherlands Hotel. She was sitting outside in blue jeans (during a time when everyone was always dressed to the nines, and dames changed clothes three times a day, she explained). A man walked past her and asked if she would ever consider modeling. That man was the late, great Avedon, who would later marry Milton Greene’s first wife Evelyn. Amy and Milton married one year later. On their wedding day, Amy’s mother whispered this into Amy’s ear: "Never go to bed sad."read more... Vanity Fair Milton Greene’s Flawless EyePosted November 19, 2008During the 50s and 60s, Milton H. Greene snapped everybody who was anybody, from Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, and Marlene Dietrich to Frank Sinatra, Gregory Peck, and Paul Newman. As Richard Avedon, no slouch himself, gushed, “Milton Greene was the best photographer of women I ever knew.” read more... AM Law Daily Photographer's Heirs Prevail in Dispute over Marilyn Monroe ImagesPosted by Dimitra Kessenides, September 5, 2008...Representatives of Monroe's estate, CMG Worldwide and Marilyn Monroe LLC, said Shaw's heirs couldn't use the images, asserting that they alone own Monroe's right to publicity. On Tuesday, Manhattan federal district court judge Colleen McMahon squelched that argument, ruling that CMG and the Monroe estate have no such rights. read more... Press Release Commercial Licensing of Marilyn Monroe Images SoarsPublished September 4, 2008The right to exploit Marilyn Monroe photographic images was upheld by the United States District Court of New York on September 2, 2008. Re-affirming a California decision in favor of Tom Kelley Studios and Milton H. Greene Archives, the court held Marilyn Monroe LLC (MMLLC) and CMG Worldwide, Inc. (CMG) do not have the right to license Marilyn Monroe name, image, likeness or signature.read more... NY Daily News Marilyn Monroe kin out of the pictureBy Thomas Zambito, September 4, 2008Marilyn Monroe's heirs can't stop a photographer's family from trying to cash in on her image, a judge ruled Wednesday. The decision was a victory for the relatives of lensman Sam Shaw, who took the iconic photo of Monroe with her white dress billowing up over a subway grate. read more... IndyStar.com Fishers firm loses lawsuit over iconic Marilyn Monroe imagePublished September 4, 2008CMG Worldwide Inc., a Fishers-based company that represents the families and estates of dead celebrities, has lost a lawsuit over the right to reproduce an iconic photo of actress Marilyn Monroe. A federal judge in New York ruled Sept. 2 that the heirs of New York photographer Sam Shaw have the right to control the photos. read more... ShowBizSpy.com Monroe Photos Handed To Photographer's HeirsPublished September 4, 2008The estate of Hollywood legend MARILYN MONROE has lost its battle for licensing rights to an iconic set of photos of the star. Photographer Sam Shaw captured the memorable Monroe photos, which include the infamous image of the actress standing over a New York subway grate as her white dress billows around her waist, in 1955. read more... PR-inside.com Marilyn Monroe Photographers Score Breakthrough Wins On Both CoastsBy Jennifer J. Dickinson, May 18, 2007Marilyn Monroe is finally unchained as a result of a federal court ruling last week in New York that occurred in favor of The Shaw Family Archives versus defendants Marilyn Monroe LLC (MMLLC) and CMG Worldwide of Indianapolis, Indiana. A similar victory has now been achieved on the opposite side of the country in the State of California, ending a two-year legal battle between Milton H Greene Archives Inc. and Tom Kelley Studios versus MMLLC and CMG Worldwide. read more... Global License! Marilyn Monroe Center of Post-Mortem Publicity CasePublished May 11, 2007The heirs of a photographer who took famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe did not violate the Hollywood star’s rights by selling pictures without the consent of her heirs, a federal judge ruled last week. read more... New York Daily News Marilyn Heirs Don't Hold Image Rights: JudgeBy David Walker, Published May 5, 2007The children of a photographer who took famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe did not violate the star's rights by selling pictures without her heirs' consent, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said in a decision dated Wednesday and made public Friday that a company led by three children of the late photographer, Sam Shaw, did not violate the rights of Monroe's estate by using pictures of her on T-shirts marketed and sold in Indiana. read more... The New York Times Court Rules for Heirs of a Man Who Took Pictures of Monroe(AP) -- Published: May 5, 2007The heirs of a photographer who took famous pictures of Marilyn Monroe did nothing wrong by selling pictures without the consent of Monroe’s heirs, a federal judge has ruled. Judge Colleen McMahon of United States District Court in Manhattan said in a decision made public yesterday that a company headed by three children of the photographer, Sam Shaw, did not violate the rights of Monroe’s estate by using pictures of her on T-shirts marketed and sold in Indiana. Millions of dollars were believed to be at stake in the litigation. read more... The Wall Street Journal Goodbye, Norma Jean (And to Your Right of Publicity)Posted by Nathan Koppel, May 3, 2007She’s long gone, but Marilyn Monroe still lives on in court, like a candle in the wind. Yesterday, New York federal judge Colleen McMahon ruled that Monroe’s right of publicity – which authorizes her beneficiaries to license her name, image or likeness for t-shirts, key chains and the like — did not survive the actress’s death in 1962. The ruling, if upheld, could have a big impact, given the still robust market for Monroe-tchotchkes, as discussed in this page-one WSJ article from last year. read more... Reuters Judge: Monroe right of publicity ended at deathBy Leslie Simmons (Hollywood Reporter, ESQ.), Fri May 4, 2007A New York federal judge has ruled that Marilyn Monroe's right of publicity died when she did in 1962, paving the way for family members of the late photographer Sam Shaw to continue selling and licensing images of the icon, including the photo of her standing above a subway gate. read more... Photo District News (pdnonline) Court Rejects Right of Publicity Claim of Marilyn Monroe HeirsBy David Walker, May 09, 2007A federal court in New York has rejected the claim of Marilyn Monroe’s estate that it owns rights of publicity in the actress’s likenesses, including photographs. In addition to undercutting a lawsuit against a photo archive for unauthorized commercial use of a Monroe photograph, the decision opens the door for anyone to use Monroe images commercially without permission from the estate. read more... digital journal Fight Over Marilyn Monroe ImagesPosted by patxxoo, May 6, 2007A t-shirt from Target and a website maintained by the Shaw family "The Shaw Family Archives Ltd." Has caused the Marolyn Monroe Estate to scramble for a piece of the pie. The legendary image of Marilyn with her skirt blowing up was one of many taken by the late Sam Shaw famous photographer. read more... The Indiana Law Blog (pdn-onlnine) Court Rejects Right of Publicity Claim of Marilyn Monroe HeirsPublished May 5, 2007U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said in a decision dated Wednesday and made public Friday that the (photographer Sam) Shaw heirs' company did not violate the rights of Monroe's estate by using pictures of her on T-shirts marketed and sold in Indiana. Millions of dollars were believed to be at stake in the litigation. The Shaw Family Archives Ltd. had asked the court to rule that a 1994 Indiana law did not create post-mortem publicity rights for Marilyn Monroe LLC. The latter company is headed by Anna Strasberg, the wife of Monroe's producer, Lee Strasberg, who received the bulk of the starlet's estate. He died in 1982. read more... For more information or licensing questions, please email us at: | Join The List... 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