Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co.

Supreme Court of Ohio · Decided 1976-07-28

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Steen, J. The complaint in this case claimed that “the defendant showed and commercialized the film of * * * [plaintiff’s] act without his consent and such conduct by the defendant was unlawful appropriation of plaintiff’s professional property.” Appropriation is a well-recognized branch of the more general tort of interference with the right of privacy. In Housh v. Peth (1956), 16…

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