Do textbook publishers who use people's personal stories have the same First Amendment immunities as news outlets? And how much of the right to control one's public persona is lost when the story appears first on the Internet? Those are some of the issues raised in a suit that touches on the right of publicity and the definition of news. The plaintiff's lawyer, Robert Merenich, says the fact that the dispute arises over an issue of medical privacy adds an additional element of interest.
January 23, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Visitors to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Web site can see a picture of Christina Tyler of Vineland, N.J., and an account of the institute’s dramatic breakthrough against the rare disease that afflicts her, genetic lipodystrophy.
“I don’t have any symptoms that I can’t live with,” she willingly told a bulletin writer for the article posted on the Web in 2003 and still there as of Jan. 13.
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