Plaintiff had been a famous child prodigy in 1910. For twenty-five years he had lived a secluded life. Then in a recent article in the New Yorker magazine his private life was completely exposed. Plaintiff sued, alleging a violation of his common-law right of privacy. Held, that the complaint should be dismissed on the ground that the public has a legitimate interest in any person who has achieved, or has had thrust upon him, the questionable and indefinite status of a \u27public figure.\u27 Sidis v. F-R Publishing Corp., (C. C. A. 2d, 1940) 113 F. (2d) 806
Defendant published plaintiff\u27s photograph in connection with a cosmetics advertisement in a Detr...
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Article by the Honourable Mr Justice Tugendhat considering new developments and case law in matters ...
Plaintiff had been a famous child prodigy in 1910. For twenty-five years he had lived a secluded lif...
The given article displays the case of Sidis v. F-R Publishing Co., which features a suit of a forme...
The American press, it has been said, is freer to invade personal privacy than perhaps any other in ...
The New York Civil Rights Law prohibits the use of a person\u27s name, portrait, or picture without ...
The American press, it’s been said, is freer to invade personal privacy than perhaps any other in th...
Defendant newspaper published an advertisement containing a picture of plaintiff, a radio artist, in...
The lives of celebrities are often spotlighted in the media because of their newsworthiness; however...
Defendants used the name and portrayed the career of one Jack Donahue in a motion picture and exhibi...
In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, in their famous Harvard Law Review article The Right to P...
The purpose of this Article is to explore the extent of an individual\u27s right of privacy, vis-à-v...
When libel law conflicts with the First Amendment, the United States Supreme Court has held that the...
Plaintiff, a chauffeur, had been the victim of a hold-up and shooting, suffering serious injury. Def...
Defendant published plaintiff\u27s photograph in connection with a cosmetics advertisement in a Detr...
In the landmark 1953 case of Haelan Laboratories v. Topps Chewing Gum, Judge Jerome Frank first arti...
Article by the Honourable Mr Justice Tugendhat considering new developments and case law in matters ...
Plaintiff had been a famous child prodigy in 1910. For twenty-five years he had lived a secluded lif...
The given article displays the case of Sidis v. F-R Publishing Co., which features a suit of a forme...
The American press, it has been said, is freer to invade personal privacy than perhaps any other in ...
The New York Civil Rights Law prohibits the use of a person\u27s name, portrait, or picture without ...
The American press, it’s been said, is freer to invade personal privacy than perhaps any other in th...
Defendant newspaper published an advertisement containing a picture of plaintiff, a radio artist, in...
The lives of celebrities are often spotlighted in the media because of their newsworthiness; however...
Defendants used the name and portrayed the career of one Jack Donahue in a motion picture and exhibi...
In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, in their famous Harvard Law Review article The Right to P...
The purpose of this Article is to explore the extent of an individual\u27s right of privacy, vis-à-v...
When libel law conflicts with the First Amendment, the United States Supreme Court has held that the...
Plaintiff, a chauffeur, had been the victim of a hold-up and shooting, suffering serious injury. Def...
Defendant published plaintiff\u27s photograph in connection with a cosmetics advertisement in a Detr...
In the landmark 1953 case of Haelan Laboratories v. Topps Chewing Gum, Judge Jerome Frank first arti...
Article by the Honourable Mr Justice Tugendhat considering new developments and case law in matters ...