An Army veteran couldn’t convince a federal appeals court to revive his lawsuit alleging that Walmart Inc. and other e-commerce sites used his likeness to sell posters without his consent.
The lower court correctly determined that Nicholas Giovannelli filed suit past the one-year statute of limitations, the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit said in a Thursday opinion.
A March 2009 combat photo of Giovannelli was allegedly downloaded from the Department of Defense’s website and has been published and sold by Posterazzi, Walmart, Pixels, and Amazon since 2011.
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