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Almost Famous: Reality Television Participants As Limited-Purpose Public Figures, Darby Green
Almost Famous: Reality Television Participants As Limited-Purpose Public Figures, Darby Green
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Note begins with an overview of the basic facets of privacy law, focusing on the tort of the public disclosure of private facts and its interaction with the First Amendment. Next, this Note explores the differences in rules for public, private, and involuntary public figures. The law of defamation is offered as a model for privacy law to emulate, specifically, the limited-purpose public figure created under Gertz and its progeny. Then, the issue of whether one's status as a public figure may diminish over the passage of time is considered. This Note posits that limited-purpose public figures should exist …
Is There Judicial Recourse To Attack Spammers?, Ashley L. Rogers
Is There Judicial Recourse To Attack Spammers?, Ashley L. Rogers
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
This Note will discuss the issue of non-commercial spam through the prism of a case recently decided by the California Supreme Court, Intel v. Hamidi. Until recently there was no federal regulation for unwanted electronic communication and common law was the only potential solution. Part I of this Note will discuss the nature of spam, focusing on the distinction between commercial e-mail and bulk e-mail and the importance therein. Part II will detail the history and the legal doctrine of trespass as it applies to the Internet. Part III will summarize the case of Intel v. Hamidi as it struggled …