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Google Analytics: Analyzing The Latest Wave Of Legal Concerns For Google In The U.S. And The E.U., Raizel Liebler, Keidra Chaney
Google Analytics: Analyzing The Latest Wave Of Legal Concerns For Google In The U.S. And The E.U., Raizel Liebler, Keidra Chaney
Buffalo Intellectual Property Law Journal
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The Death Of The Public Disclosure Tort: A Historical Perspective, Samantha Barbas
The Death Of The Public Disclosure Tort: A Historical Perspective, Samantha Barbas
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In 1890, Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis, in their famous Harvard Law Review article The Right to Privacy, called for a new legal right that would allow the victims of truthful but embarrassing press publicity to recover damages for emotional harm. Currently, in most states, it constitutes a tort if the disclosure of “matter concerning the private life of another” would be highly offensive to a reasonable person and the matter is not “of legitimate concern to the public,” or newsworthy. However, because courts generally consider virtually everything that appears in the news media to be newsworthy, the public disclosure …