Ancestry.com Inc. misappropriated names and photos to promote its service in violation of the Ohio Right of Publicity Statute, according to a proposed class action filed Friday.
Diania Nemcik, a former Archbold, Ohio high school faculty member, filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. She’s seeking to represent a class of Ohio residents who aren’t Ancestry.com subscribers and whose names and yearbook photos the company used to promote subscriptions, she says.
Nemcik says searching her name on the genealogy site turned up yearbook photos of her and promotional text selling a subscription that ...
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