Media and Law 7, 8, and 9

Privacy

protecting individuals’ right to control their personal information and prevent unauthorized intrusion into their personal lives.

The right of privacy is in jeopardy because of…

• Changes in technology (phones, internet, etc.)

• Threats by domestic and foreign terrorists after 9/11

• People are participating and using social media.

Privacy laws rose at the end of the 19th century because…

• People began to move to urban large metropolitan areas.

• Sensational newspaper journalism (yellow journalism).

Appropriation

illegal to use someone’s name, image, or likeness for commercial or trade purposes without consent.

There are 2 rights…

Personal and Property right

Personal Rights

protects from emotional harm (embarrassment, etc.).

Property Rights

Protects economic value to your name or likeness.

What are “names”?

nickname, stage name, pen names.

What is a “likeness”?

photos, paintings, sketches, cartoon, fictional characters, look/sound alike.

There is an exemption to appropriation…

when the individual are in a news story; anything that is not a explicit advertisement.

Booth Rule

if someone is advertising with an image they took, they are allowed to use the image how they like.

Written consent: will be valid within in a…

start date and end date.

Written consent: minors and ward of the state…

can not give consent.

Written consent: if an image is altered

it does not apply.

When you die, personal right __ and property right __.

1. dies

2. thrives.

Several states have passed laws stating that…

the right to publicity may live on after death with their heirs controlling these rights.

Intrusion