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Professor Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law and Innovation at IU McKinney, welcomed Professor Mary LaFrance as the speaker for the Center’s Distinguished Lecture Series on October 4.

Professor Nguyen is shown in the photo at right with Professor LaFrance. The lecture took place in the Inlow Hall Wynne Courtroom.

Professor LaFrance is the IGT Professor of Intellectual Property Law at the William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV. Her talk was titled, “The Right of Publicity and Cross-Border Infringements.”

"Choice of law can be outcome-determinative in right of publicity claims where the plaintiff is domiciled outside of the jurisdiction where the alleged infringement occurred," Professor LaFrance said. "This paper critiques the approach used by the majority of U.S. courts, and recommends an alternative.”