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The face that launched a thousand lawsuits / Jessica Lake.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Yale Law Library series in legal history and referencePublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300225303
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.420973 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1236.5
Online resources: The advent of the photographic and cinematic camera in the mid to late 19th century caused new harms to individuals (particularly women), which existing laws (copyright, defamation, trespass) were inadequate to address. This work demonstrates that women forged a 'right to privacy' in the United States by bringing lawsuits claiming control and ownership over filmed images (still and moving) of their faces, bodies and narratives.
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Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The advent of the photographic and cinematic camera in the mid to late 19th century caused new harms to individuals (particularly women), which existing laws (copyright, defamation, trespass) were inadequate to address. This work demonstrates that women forged a 'right to privacy' in the United States by bringing lawsuits claiming control and ownership over filmed images (still and moving) of their faces, bodies and narratives.

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