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1. Sources of privacy rights in the United States today include:
2. Transformative use in a right of publicity case refers to
3. One of the most important scholarly articles contributing to the legal recognition of a right to privacy in the
United States was published in 1890 in the Harvard Law Review and was co-authored by:
4. A person's whose photo is taken without her permission while she is walking down a public street sidewalk
cannot successfully sue for public disclosure of private facts but could successfully sue for:
5. The intrusion tort differs from other right to privacy torts (appropriation, public disclosure of private facts
6. The Booth rule is applicable in which of the four varieties of invasion of privacy?
7. In privacy law, the doctrine of incidental use means
8. In 2013, which one of the following states attempted to adopt an anti-paparazzi statute known as the "Steven
Tyler Act"?
9. Legislation adopted by states and the federal government since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 has
10. Vanna White brought a successful right of publicity case based upon the unauthorized use of:
11. Discuss briefly whether American courts consider it possible for a well-known person to pass his or her
right of publicity on to an heir.
12. What are the circumstances in which written consent may not suffice as a defense in an appropriation case?
13. While celebrities can stop the use of their names or likenesses in commercial vehicles like ads or films, they
can't protect the use of their voice in such vehicles.
14. The use of a name or likeness in any publication sold to a reader for a profit is considered an appropriation.
15. A corporation enjoys the same personal right of privacy as a living person.
16. The publication of information that has been obtained through an illegal intrusion is not considered an
invasion of privacy if the reporter or editor had nothing to do with the intrusion.
17. Courts are in agreement that a person using wi-fi to send or receive material via the Internet enjoys a
reasonable expectation of privacy.
18. Persons who send e-mail messages and participate in chat rooms on the Internet do not have a reasonable
expectation of privacy under the law.
19. The use of the likeness of a celebrity on a shirt, trading cards or other such items is always regarded as an
appropriation.
20. The defense of newsworthiness in a privacy lawsuit extends to stories about important governmental,
economic, foreign policy or political issues, but it does not extend to stories about social or cultural issues.
21. An employee who uses a company computer has a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to the
e-mails he or she sent or received.
