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The Application Of Product Liability Principles To Publishers Of Violent Or Sexually Explicit Material, Richard C. Ausness
The Application Of Product Liability Principles To Publishers Of Violent Or Sexually Explicit Material, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
There have been a number of tragic incidents during the past few years in which mentally unstable teenagers have carried guns into school and shot teachers and fellow students. These schoolyard killings have generated an intense debate about the problem of violence in our society. Some social commentators have attributed teenage violence to the widespread availability of firearms, while others blame parental neglect, lack of discipline in the schools, or the declining influence of religion and morality in contemporary culture. However, another source of concern is the popular media, which stands accused of purveying sex and violence on a massive …
The Newsworthiness Defense To The Public Disclosure Tort, Geoff Dendy
The Newsworthiness Defense To The Public Disclosure Tort, Geoff Dendy
Kentucky Law Journal
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The Right Of Publicity: A "Haystack In A Hurricane", Richard C. Ausness
The Right Of Publicity: A "Haystack In A Hurricane", Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
Over the years, entertainers, athletes and other celebrities have sought legal protection for a variety of occupationally related injuries. By virtue of being in the public eye, celebrities often complain that their private lives have somehow been invaded. This concept of invasion of privacy involves damages for mental anguish suffered by virtue of the unwarranted disturbance. However, performers may also suffer injury of an economic, rather than personal, nature. For example, an individual's performance may be used without his or her consent. People will normally pay to watch that entertainer, but where the performance is misappropriated, he is unable to …
Libel Per Quod In Florida, Richard C. Ausness
Libel Per Quod In Florida, Richard C. Ausness
Law Faculty Scholarly Articles
The purpose of this article is to trace the development of the rules of defamation with particular reference to extrinsic fact. A defamatory communication is one that tends to diminish the esteem, respect, good will, or confidence in which a person is held or to excite adverse, derogatory, or unpleasant feelings or opinions against him. To be actionable under the modem law, however, the defendant's statement must be capable of a defamatory meaning in the sense normally understood.
Defamation consists of the separate torts of libel and slander. Historically, these torts evolved independently of each other, and as a result …