Similarities to Waits v. Frito-Lay, Midler v. Ford in Johnny Case estate lawsuit against Coca-Cola?

A lawsuit was filed in December 2025 by the Johnny Cash estate against Coca-Cola under the recently amended Tennessee Right of Publicity statute. Johnny Case Estate v. Coca-Cola in Tennessee

How similar is the complaint to Midler? Bette Midler v. Ford Motor Company

How similar is the complaint to Waits? Tom Waits v. Frito-Lay

And see: San Diego jury awards nearly $20M to Hubert Hansent Trust

The Right of Publicity and Scarlett Johannson’s response to ChatGPT Sky voice

Details and context matter in Right of Publicity analysis. As a brief summary, OpenAI recently released its ChatGPT 4.0 with a chatbot voice (“Sky”) which Scarlett Johannson says is “eerily similar” to hers. We don’t know how the situation may get resolved, but the Right of Publicity provides a response. Apparently, an offer was made by OpenAI for Johannson to voice the ChatGPT 4.0 chat bot. Johannson declined. It may have seemed like a natural fit due to Johannson’s role in the movie Her in which she was the voice of an AI system. Perhaps that fit was so natural that on May 13, 2024 in proximity to the release, Sam Altman issued a one-word tweet: “her.” Past negotiations and this tweet could be the subject of considerable attention, as an example of why “details and context matter” when it comes to the Right of Publicity. The company has denied that Sky was meant to sound like Johannson, but these details could possibly indicate otherwise.

Here is a link to one of numerous articles providing more details: Scarlett Johannson ChatGPT voice that sounded like her