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Kaelyn Lunglhofer, a 19-year-old college student, is suing the dating app Meete after her TikTok video was used without her permission in an online advertisement that falsely suggested she was available for sexual encounters, raising questions about the application of right-of-publicity laws to protect individuals from unauthorized commercial exploitation of their likenesses. #PublicityRights #SocialMedia #LegalIssues #US #CN #VG
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A TikTok, a dating-app ad, and a teenager's lawsuit over her rights to her identity
May 7 (Reuters) - On the day she graduated from high school last year, Kaelyn Lunglhofer donned a bright orange crop top -- the signature color of the University of Tennessee, where she was headed in the fall -- and recorded a 10βsecond TikTok video, opens new tab lipβsyncing to a country music song.