Laws of image : privacy and publicity in America

Laws of image : privacy and publicity in America /

"Americans have long been obsessed with their images--their looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the creation of laws that protect your right to control your public image, to defend your image, and to f...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Barbas, Samantha (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford Law Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2015
Subjects:
Privacy, Right of > United States > History.
Personality (Law) > United States > History.
Libel and slander > United States > History.
Publicity (Law) > United States > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : our images, our selves
  • Image and reputation at the turn of the century
  • The origins of the right to privacy
  • The crisis of the circulating portrait
  • Insult and image
  • The image society
  • The laws of image : libel, privacy, emotional distress
  • The freedom to image : Sidis v. The New Yorker
  • "An age of images"
  • Privacy and the image in postwar America
  • Conclusion : the law and personal image in the digital age.

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