Pursuits
Bogart Heirs Vie With Burberry Over Use of ‘Casablanca’ Coat
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Burberry Group Plc and heirs of Humphrey Bogart have filed lawsuits against each other over an image of the late actor wearing a Burberry trench coat in the film “Casablanca.”
Burberry asked a federal court to declare that its use of Bogart’s name and image in social media doesn’t infringe Bogart LLC’s trademark rights or rights of publicity, it said in a complaint filed yesterday in New York.