Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1977-06-28

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Mr, Justice Stevens, dissenting. The Ohio Supreme Court held that respondent’s telecast of the “human cannonball” was a privileged invasion of petitioner’s common-law “right of publicity” because respondent’s actual intent was neither (a) to appropriate the benefit of the publicity for a private use, nor (b) to injure petitioner. * < citation-ind…

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