In this closely watched case, the California Supreme Court held today that DC Comic's First Amendment rights trumped Johnny and Edgar Winter's statutory right of publicity in an interesting opinion you can read here. DC Comics had published a comic book featuring two characters called "The Autumn Brothers." Some of the Autumn Brothers' distinctive characteristics were recognizably taken from the real-life Winter brothers. But the Autumn Brothers were also "depicted as villainous half-worm, half-human offspring born from the rape of their mother by a supernatural worm creature that had escaped from a hole in the ground," according to Justice Chin. UPDATE: Here's an article on the case from The Recorder.